Top 100 One It Quotes
#1. I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.
Steve Maraboli
#2. Regret and guilt are useless emotions that hold ye in a past that's already gone . . . and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that allowing yerself to be dragged down by the past helps no one. It jest keeps ye from ha'ing both feet in the present where ye should be.
Lynsay Sands
#3. When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.
John Densmore
#4. Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.
Gore Vidal
#5. I think you're never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.
Cheryl Tiegs
#6. Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.
Christian Cantrell
#7. She made no answer, and he went on: What's the use? You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring - that's all.
Edith Wharton
#8. Jump right in, or wade in slowly.
Advantage to one, it's over quickly.
Advantage to the other, it isn't.
Maira Kalman
#9. Our lips met, and if this kiss wasn't as ... thorough as the first one, it felt bigger somehow. More important.
Rachel Hawkins
#10. I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.
Tommy Cooper
#11. I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.
Leonard Mlodinow
#12. As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
Aaron Rodgers
#13. A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.
Duane Decker
#14. Because this was what Ove had learned: if one didn't have anything to say, one had to find something to ask. If there was one thing that made people forget to dislike one, it was when they were given the opportunity to talk about themselves.
Fredrik Backman
#15. It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#16. The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
Richard Feynman
#17. If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.
Ferdinand Lundberg
#18. If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better yet, perfect... sheet music."
"Sheet music?"
"Yeah, music between the sheets.
Ann Lister
#19. The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
Jean Baudrillard
#20. He'd been her one. It took him years to realize she was his.
Kristen Ashley
#21. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#22. The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth ... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
#23. My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
Dennis Kucinich
#24. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#25. A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.
Steve Ballmer
#26. I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.
Blake Mycoskie
#27. Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.
Mike Krieger
#28. I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange--a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking. ~Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
#29. I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]
Dorothy Parker
#30. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
#31. You don't struggle with these questions?"
"No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have."
"An American flaw.
Lily King
#32. What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz
#33. Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.
Anthony Powell
#34. I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one ... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.
Matt Ryan
#36. When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
Erica Jong
#37. The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
Charles Duhigg
#38. Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love.
William Faulkner
#39. There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one'... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'.
Charles Baudelaire
#40. If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Jack Adams
#41. This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
Benjamin Zephaniah
#42. If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
David Nicholls
#43. I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.
Michael Rapaport
#44. The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
Asger Jorn
#45. The transitional period was tough, I won't kid you. You go from a certain family dynamic to adjusting to a completely new one. It took a few months for us all to fi nd our feet.
Donna Air
#46. A story should have a point, but a life doesn't need one. It just needs to be lived.
Matthew Sturges
#48. He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.
G.K. Chesterton
#49. Exactly!' The pandit beamed again. 'So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself, the colours it absorbs and the one it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world except green?
Amish Tripathi
#50. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.
Donna Lynn Hope
#51. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.
Cus D'Amato
#52. While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#53. At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know ... wall.
D.J. MacHale
#54. The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere.
Mary Midgley
#55. Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
Marie Of Romania
#56. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.
Claire Thompson
#57. I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.
Channing Tatum
#58. It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced on. All my life I've hated crowds. Now I only have to step outdoors and I'm at the centre of one. It's very cool but it's very uncomfortable too.
Robert Pattinson
#59. Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
Jonathan Nolan
#60. I dont know why, but I feel some pain when she knew I was writing a lot of writing for her and when she suddenly wrote one, it's not for me. You can't go on with the situation like that, it could have kill you at the exact moment.
Ariel Seraphino
#61. An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
J. F. C. Fuller
#62. Most people [ ... ] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else
John Wyndham
#63. Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.
Charles Kettering
#64. Please, sit down, Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.
James Patterson
#65. I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.
Michel Hazanavicius
#66. The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
Maria Montessori
#67. For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.
Tom Cavanagh
#68. In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
Gloria Steinem
#69. I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#70. I take a swig of wine. A big one. It's pointless. There's not enough wine in the world for this.
Leisa Rayven
#71. Never in my life did I expect to hold a gun, let alone fire one. It feels dangerous to me, as if just by touching it, I could hurt someone.
Veronica Roth
#72. Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.
Huey Lewis
#73. Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.
Francine Pascal
#74. The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold.
Thomas Cole
#75. There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake?
Jeffrey Kluger
#76. Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions.
David Mazzucchelli
#77. Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?"
Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. "We met at some party, did we not, Mr. Bonnaud?"
"Yes." Tristan forced a smile. "Clearly a very dull one, since neither of us can remember which one it was.
Sabrina Jeffries
#78. No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.
Philip K. Dick
#79. When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.
Lazare Carnot
#80. There's only one thing that can heal the heart ... Only one ... It's love, Gaara.
Masashi Kishimoto
#81. The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
Katherine Mansfield
#82. Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people.
James Miller
#83. One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.
Jeanne W. Ross
#84. I don't know if I'm particularly funny, I mean one of my legs is shorter than the other one, it makes everything look very awkward, so I can just pretty much look like an idiot, but I don't know whether I can be like witty. It could be a problem.
Robert Pattinson
#85. Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
Gary Lawrence
#86. For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
Yanis Varoufakis
#87. The idea of "Ten Commandments" is a deeply compelling one. It combines two impulses that are ingrained in our nature as human beings: making lists of ten things, and telling other people how to behave.
Sean Carroll
#88. We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.
Charles Caleb Colton
#89. This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that's the truth.
Catherynne M Valente
#90. You haven't a heart! a woman told him on one occasion. She was wrong; he had one. It saw him through his twenty-hour day, when he hourly watched men dying who were meant to live. It enabled him to start anew each morning. He had just enough heart for that, ...
Albert Camus
#91. Beside him, the world was a soft, pulsing and bright thing, alive with hidden angles that we could uncover one by one. It was more than magic. It was life turned relentless and astral. And I reveled in it.
Roshani Chokshi
#92. I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood ... As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
Billy Graham
#93. The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one's own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, 'I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
Dada Bhagwan
#94. For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one ... It is soothing and enough.
M.F.K. Fisher
#95. If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.
Corrie Ten Boom
#96. A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
Willie Nelson
#97. Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love.
Jason Aldean
#98. Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#99. Change doesn't happen all at one. It's a gradual wearing away of the unconsciousness.
Paula Heller Garland
#100. As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.
Ralph Lauren
