Top 100 One Or The Other Quotes
#1. For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
Marjane Satrapi
#2. To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
Benjamin Haydon
#3. I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.
Doug Stanhope
#4. I know that you should eat a lot of the Indian spice turmeric, as it fights cancer. Also that you should avoid the Indian spice turmeric, as it might contain dangerous levels of lead. One or the other.
A. J. Jacobs
#5. There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Hermann Weyl
#7. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12
Jon Meacham
#8. Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
John Silber
#9. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.
Vironika Tugaleva
#10. One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially. Except when one doesn't know that sacrilege has been committed. Because one doesn't know God.
Ayn Rand
#11. It had just been made excruciatingly clear to him that the human male brain and the human male cock couldn't both sustain sufficient amounts of blood to function at the same time. It was one or the other, and the human male apparently didn't get to choose which one.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
Peter J. Daniels
#13. In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
Terrence McNally
#14. It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#15. There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
John Wayne
#16. The one necessary thing. - A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.
Theresa Rebeck
#18. Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.
Cesar Romero
#19. I want to be a good man, a good writer."
"Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.
Naomi Wood
#20. I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn't one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.
Kaira Rouda
#21. You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
Anne Rice
#23. Lonely's a different kind of pain, it doesn't hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it 'cause I reckoned it was one or the other.
Kristen Ashley
#24. The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways.
Sheila Cassidy
#25. Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
Kacey Musgraves
#27. Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.
Jane Austen
#28. In the end we are almost never happy or unhappy because of what happens to us; we are one or the other depending on the humor that flows inside us
Paolo Giordano
#29. Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#30. The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
Bobby Farrelly
#31. You were all given a choice," Derek boomed. "Prison time or my time. One or the other. If you thought I was the lesser of two evils, you were wrong. You each have a skill that landed you in this room and I intend to use those skills to make Chicago safer.
Tessa Bailey
#32. You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.
Gerard Way
#33. Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
Chuck Knox
#34. To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it's less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.
Gregg Braden
#35. If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#36. We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
Alan Cheuse
#37. Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.
Meir Soloveichik
#38. Perfect, he was so perfect - the exact balance she hadn't known she'd been looking for: the roughness she loved and the sweetness she'd always craved but never found. It didn't have to be one or the other. She could have it all. With him, she could have everything.
Cherrie Lynn
#39. Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
Becki Newton
#40. Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
Elie Wiesel
#41. There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
Alec Baldwin
#42. The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
Hugh MacLeod
#43. Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.
Aristotle.
#44. The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker
#45. Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
James Harvey Robinson
#47. The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.
Richard Rohr
#48. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.
Megan McCafferty
#49. Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
Felix Salmon
#50. As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#51. If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind ...
Cennino Cennini
#52. Every genius is at once extraordinary and banal. He is
nothing if he is only one or the other.We must remember this when thinking of rebellion. It has its dandies and its
menials, but it does not recognize its legitimate sons.
Albert Camus
#53. I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.
Dee Rees
#54. The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you've been given.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.
Plato
#56. Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other. And his shadow, which followed him closely and knew all of his secrets, might have said he was both.
Stephen Krensky
#57. Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.
Yao Ming
#59. Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible ... one or the other must go.
Vera Brittain
#60. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.
Leslye Walton
#61. We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin
#63. If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
Wanda Jackson
#64. The contrast between good and evil fades by diluting the essence of one or the other.
Craig Smedley
#65. I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
Ted Ligety
#66. There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other
Mayra Santos-Febres
#67. Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#68. Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.
Raymond Burr
#69. Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
Cinda Williams Chima
#70. I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much saying is, 'We want a Caucasian guy or a black guy.' One or the other.
Bronson Pelletier
#71. An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.
Anton Chekhov
#72. The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground
Patrick Kingsley
#73. Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that ... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
Rudolf Steiner
#74. Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#75. My Pirelli calendar is hanging on the wall of my friend's frat house, and he doesn't know anything about fashion. That balance is what leads to big campaigns outside of fashion. But I never want to choose one or the other. Both commercial and high fashion are what make my job so interesting.
Gigi Hadid
#76. I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth
#78. Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!
Fulton J. Sheen
#79. Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.
Selma James
#80. Allan didn't even know if the Prime Minister was Left or Right. He must certainly be one of them, because if there was one thing life had taugh Allan, it was that people insisted on being one or the other.
Jonas Jonasson
#81. Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The
Thomas A. Harris
#82. Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
H.G.Wells
#84. Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
Sheldon Vanauken
#85. Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Bob Dylan
#86. I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.
Mila Kunis
#87. It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.
David Morse
#88. I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
Loretta Chase
#89. They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other.
Kristin Hannah
#90. In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
Billy Strayhorn
#91. No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...
Carew Papritz
#92. The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?
Lee Carroll
#93. What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?
Kate Bornstein
#94. He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other.
A. L. Kennedy
#95. We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#96. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#97. The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.
Samuel Johnson
#98. So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea.
Robert Kiyosaki
#99. We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
Russell Banks
#100. Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
Christopher Alexander
