Top 100 One After Another Quotes

#1. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

One After Another Quotes #40
#2. I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

George R R Martin

One After Another Quotes #1719
#3. One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. I don't feel bad about missing that.

Haruki Murakami

One After Another Quotes #6087
#4. Criminal defense really isn't so different from proctology. In both fields, it's one asshole after another.

Emma Chase

One After Another Quotes #13513
#5. Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Honore De Balzac

One After Another Quotes #14413
#6. I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

Quentin Tarantino

One After Another Quotes #17669
#7. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One After Another Quotes #19818
#8. Life is one darn thing after another.

Calvin Coolidge

One After Another Quotes #30248
#9. Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

Jimmy Carter

One After Another Quotes #33698
#10. Maybe life was just a series of phases - one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I'd be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

One After Another Quotes #35619
#11. I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman

One After Another Quotes #36983
#12. To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Victor Hugo

One After Another Quotes #38977
#13. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

Richard Carlson

One After Another Quotes #41548
#14. In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.

Richard M. Weaver

One After Another Quotes #42397
#15. And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another.

Kim Stanley Robinson

One After Another Quotes #51054
#16. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

Donnie Fritts

One After Another Quotes #51561
#17. I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

Raoul Wallenberg

One After Another Quotes #53600
#18. Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

One After Another Quotes #53981
#19. It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One After Another Quotes #55651
#20. Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.

Vladimir Nabokov

One After Another Quotes #60257
#21. Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

Tallulah Bankhead

One After Another Quotes #70392
#22. Guys are like buses [...] Why get on the first one you see, when there's another one coming right after? Or something like that. Or maybe it's the opposite. I heard that on Oprah.

Blake Nelson

One After Another Quotes #77265
#23. And that, ... is the story of our country, one invasion after another ... Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

Khaled Hosseini

One After Another Quotes #81842
#24. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

Liane Merciel

One After Another Quotes #83572
#25. When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

Jane Green

One After Another Quotes #83952
#26. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.

Paul Krassner

One After Another Quotes #90409
#27. A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals
that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

Zadie Smith

One After Another Quotes #93851
#28. Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Oscar Wilde

One After Another Quotes #99085
#29. Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

Frederick Lenz

One After Another Quotes #107809
#30. It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

Seth Shostak

One After Another Quotes #110762
#31. High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

Michael Keaton

One After Another Quotes #116665
#32. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

D. Michael Quinn

One After Another Quotes #116693
#33. Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

Amy Dickinson

One After Another Quotes #121063
#34. If you're in love with someone, can't you manage one way or another with her? Hatsumi asked after a few moments' thought.

Haruki Murakami

One After Another Quotes #121213
#35. That was a page read and turned over; I was busy now with this new page, and when the engine whistled on the grade, this page would be finished and another begun; and so the book of life goes on, page after page and pages without end - when one is young.

Jack London

One After Another Quotes #130180
#36. I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.

Dai Sijie

One After Another Quotes #131787
#37. [L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One After Another Quotes #134494
#38. In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains.

Morgan Llywelyn

One After Another Quotes #135038
#39. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?

Brian D. McLaren

One After Another Quotes #138251
#40. The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Billy Tauzin

One After Another Quotes #138724
#41. Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!

Philippa Gregory

One After Another Quotes #145368
#42. That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

Megan Whalen Turner

One After Another Quotes #158325
#43. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Matthew Hayden

One After Another Quotes #165664
#44. Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.

Jennifer Richard Jacobson

One After Another Quotes #168507
#45. Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

Wolfman Jack

One After Another Quotes #172011
#46. You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Jami Attenberg

One After Another Quotes #172092
#47. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

Rona Jaffe

One After Another Quotes #177747
#48. At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Philip Roth

One After Another Quotes #177755
#49. After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

Madeleine Albright

One After Another Quotes #181980
#50. Emotions flickered in the amber depths, one after another, like lightning bugs winking on and off. Disgust. Anger. Mistrust. Suspicion. Curiosity.

Jennifer Estep

One After Another Quotes #184556
#51. Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.

Andre Vltchek

One After Another Quotes #187531
#52. Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

Shaun David Hutchinson

One After Another Quotes #188618
#53. The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One After Another Quotes #192831
#54. She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

Peter Heller

One After Another Quotes #193452
#55. On second thought
maybe it's the little problems
that pile up the worst.
Deeper and darker.
One after another.

Until there's no light at all.

Madeleine Kuderick

One After Another Quotes #196472
#56. Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Ned Beauman

One After Another Quotes #197737
#57. Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

Virginia Woolf

One After Another Quotes #198484
#58. I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

One After Another Quotes #199974
#59. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

Rod Dixon

One After Another Quotes #199992
#60. A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Ryan Phillippe

One After Another Quotes #202326
#61. History's just one darn thing after another.

Henry Ford

One After Another Quotes #203169
#62. 'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

Michael Hirst

One After Another Quotes #210636
#63. John 1:16: From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

Beth Moore

One After Another Quotes #218452
#64. Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

William Blake

One After Another Quotes #223159
#65. I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

Luc Besson

One After Another Quotes #225229
#66. And everyone would climb the stairs chuckling to their rooms and dream of aces and knaves and a supply of trumps that would last for ever and ever, one trump after another, an invincible superiority subject to neither change nor decay nor old age, for a trump will always be a trump, come what may.

J.G. Farrell

One After Another Quotes #225954
#67. Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump

Rene Denfeld

One After Another Quotes #229122
#68. Hanging out with Josh was like learning how to drive stick. It was hard enough just to start and then it was one stall after another. But somehow I always managed to crawl forward, just a little bit.

Heather Demetrios

One After Another Quotes #232168
#69. Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Voltaire

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#70. The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community and the measures for which he stands.

Bertrand Russell

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#71. Life is not just one dark moment after another.

Alexis Denisof

One After Another Quotes #246454
#72. What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Robert Harris

One After Another Quotes #251938
#73. How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to live in a house like this. Another promise I've broken; at least that one was only to myself.

David Mitchell

One After Another Quotes #251950
#74. ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.

Atul Gawande

One After Another Quotes #252347
#75. It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Joel Sartore

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#76. For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.

Adoniram Judson

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#77. These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

Alexandre Dumas

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#78. retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means "the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.

Martha Hall Kelly

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#79. They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war ...

Anna Komnene

One After Another Quotes #260405
#80. The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

James Anthony Froude

One After Another Quotes #264523
#81. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

Michel Foucault

One After Another Quotes #269835
#82. The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

Hakan Nesser

One After Another Quotes #273267
#83. Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

Paul Theroux

One After Another Quotes #274414
#84. At high enough energy and temperature - such as occurred a mere fraction of a second after the big bang - electromagnetic and weak force fields dissolve into one another, take on indistinguishable characteristics, and are more accurately called electroweak fields.

Brian Greene

One After Another Quotes #274558
#85. And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

William Napier

One After Another Quotes #278572
#86. Life's still stupid but we got free of story out here under the beeches and the Big Dipper. We had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws, and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.

Catherynne M Valente

One After Another Quotes #279337
#87. We must realize that people do not have to conform to one another. We are after all, ultimately beholden to ourselves.

Carlos Wallace

One After Another Quotes #279625
#88. I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

James Branch Cabell

One After Another Quotes #284012
#89. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

One After Another Quotes #286064
#90. One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say
and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length ...

Wilkie Collins

One After Another Quotes #289218
#91. There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

Mike Johanns

One After Another Quotes #290471
#92. Death rode the sky, alright," Adrian summarized of that day, in a sad tone of resignation that was repeated in the voice of one survivor after another. "I can close my eyes right now and see that tornado picking up the old Ross place, and just blowing it up.

Angela Mason

One After Another Quotes #302177
#93. There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

Joan Didion

One After Another Quotes #304312
#94. Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Ian Hislop

One After Another Quotes #305180
#95. Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

Lance Armstrong

One After Another Quotes #309370
#96. You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.

Alexander McCall Smith

One After Another Quotes #314528
#97. The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work.

Timothy J. Keller

One After Another Quotes #315453
#98. Sally, do you think God has put us into the world just to be selfish, and do nothing but see after our own souls? or to help one another with heart and hand, as Christ did to all who wanted help?

Elizabeth Gaskell

One After Another Quotes #318142
#99. In the cups, one after another, glistening disks rose, black without translucence.

Samuel R. Delany

One After Another Quotes #329610
#100. Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come?

Judy Blume

One After Another Quotes #329706

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