Top 100 One For Quotes
#1. If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
James Beard
#2. And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
Farley Mowat
#3. It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#4. Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.
John Dos Passos
#5. On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.
Lawren Leo
#6. The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other side of the table, rather than one for everyone at the table.
William Voegeli
#7. I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
Meryl Streep
#8. All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?
Skye Callahan
#9. Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.
Ashton Kutcher
#10. Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.
Meghan Daum
#11. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#12. Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod
#13. I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
Karen Thompson Walker
#15. I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
Jim Carrey
#16. I have never been one for the over-the-top.
Rick Allen
#17. The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
Joseph P. Bradley
#18. I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
#19. Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
Gina Barreca
#20. Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Baron De Montesquieu
#21. Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.
Joseph Heller
#22. He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
Charles Frazier
#23. Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
Saint Basil
#24. On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
Rhys Ifans
#25. The book didn't come to any conclusion, and nobody wants to read a book that doesn't have one. For me, though, having no conclusion seemed perfectly fine.
Haruki Murakami
#26. It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
Gustavo Dudamel
#27. Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
Gore Vidal
#28. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
#29. My mom used to say, before, I met your father, that it's not about meeting the right guy - there are hundreds, thousands, of right guys in the world- it's figuring out the right one for you.
Ellie Alexander
#30. And I know that your childhood wasn't all that great-that you felt a lot of pain,and that you are in a lot of pain right now. But maybe you have to go through all that so you'll learn just how important having a happy childhood can be, so you will provide one for our daughter.
Matthew Quick
#31. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.
Helena Hunting
#32. One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.
Margaret Atwood
#33. It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.
Graham Coxon
#35. The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.
Colin Cotterill
#37. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
Lionel Messi
#38. I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#39. Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
George Will
#40. There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.
Robin Jones Gunn
#41. I've seen enough cowboys in my life that I know I don't want one for a husband." ...Victoria
"Every good man I know is a cowboy."
Scarlett Dunn
#43. A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.
Roland Barthes
#44. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
Louisa May Alcott
#45. It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
Alain De Botton
#46. There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
Meister Eckhart
#47. It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.
Fulton J. Sheen
#48. The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.
Jonathan Lethem
#49. During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
Geraldine McEwan
#50. This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
Gustave Moreau
#51. They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them.
J.M. Darhower
#52. Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
Augusto De Luca
#53. In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.
Brian Gregor
#54. When plotting revenge, you should dig two graves - one for your enemy, and the other for yourself
Nathan Robert Brown
#55. Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'
David Letterman
#56. I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
Barack Obama
#57. I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
Margaret Cho
#58. Shall any be his own artificer? or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one? for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.
Augustine Of Hippo
#59. I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
Samantha Fox
#60. Sometimes the best advice comes from those whom you least expect ... therefore take no one for granted
Jeremy Aldana
#61. I've always loved my red wine, and when I'm not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it's one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.
Amanda Donohoe
#62. This is our story. It will not be an easy one to read. It was not an easy one for us to live, either.
Jason Crawford
#63. When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
Oscar Wilde
#64. I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.
Dean Koontz
#65. There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time.
It sparks a reaction.
It shows them their true worth.
It shows them their place.
Jonathan Hickman
#66. The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
William Cavendish
#67. I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#68. I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera
#69. He only needs the One; for he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it, so that he could rule all the others.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#70. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Alexander Pope
#71. There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
Rigoberta Menchu
#72. Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book
Miriam Toews
#73. This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective - all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.
Rebecca Stead
#75. Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
Marian Keyes
#76. Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
* She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned up.
Terry Pratchett
#77. One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.
Stephen Richards
#78. So the fairies are wonderfully helpful for anything involving animals. They'll even help you find lost pets or locate a new one for adoption.
Doreen Virtue
#79. It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.
Angela Carter
#80. Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice."
"I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour
J.D. Robb
#81. What's this? (Fang)
One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn't think I'd let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.
Harlan Ellison
#83. I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.
Erich Bergen
#85. That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.
Ron Chernow
#86. I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
Nayvadius Cash
#87. I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.
Michelle Grabner
#88. In every fairy tale there is a kernel of truth, and that is the truth of this one. For him, I am poison. I am his death. And I will deliver.
Melinda Salisbury
#89. Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.
David Shibley
#90. The kangaroo has a double penis - one for week days and one for holidays.
Henry Miller
#91. It's only ever been you, Penny." He pulls back, runs the pads of his fingers across my chin, and meets my gaze. "You're the only one for me.
Lauren Blakely
#92. We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
John Green
#93. Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset
#94. Love isn't about wanting a hero, it's about wanting to be one for the other person.
T.M. Frazier
#95. Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.
Andrew Murray
#96. Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
Imran Khan
#97. Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
Lloyd Alexander
#98. I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Lee Child
#99. As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.
My Idea grows.
A.S. King
#100. I've heard many times that people would make a comment, 'This looks like a bomb,' and still open it. That's one for the psychologists to answer.
Gavin De Becker
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