Top 100 One Should Quotes
#1. I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury
#2. I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.
Michael Dirda
#3. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#4. In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
Peter Agre
#5. Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder if not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other. You
Kakuzo Okakura
#7. One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor
#8. Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.
Deborah Blake
#9. Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. Whenever one feels like saying "the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector"", one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#11. We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.
Daniel Handler
#13. You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you
take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a
single hour.
Robert Musil
#14. But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.
Martin Winterkorn
#16. Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.
Heloise
#17. I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#18. In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations.
Trenton Quinn
#19. Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz
Joe Abercrombie
#22. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else.
Henry Cloud
#23. No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
Jose Serrano
#25. One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no, - they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#27. You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix
#28. I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt
#29. One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.
Marty Rubin
#30. It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
David Douglass
#31. It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.
Rene Girard
#33. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.
Theodore Hesburgh
#34. People should learn to see and so avoid all danger. Just as a wise man keeps away from mad dogs, so one should not make friends with evil men." - Buddha
Gavin De Becker
#35. One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt,
Frank Herbert
#36. One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
Mario Bunge
#37. Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
Ramana Maharshi
#38. No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
Haile Selassie
#39. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
Marty Rubin
#40. The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
Ramana Maharshi
#41. No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
Vladimir Putin
#42. No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
Donald Wuerl
#43. It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.
William Ruckelshaus
#44. If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.
Ronald Isley
#45. Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
Neal Shusterman
#46. I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
Cristin Terrill
#47. It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.
Paul Evdokimov
#48. One should love from a position of wholeness. One should have a firm and rich sense of self no matter what. For there is always pain - it cannot be avoided in this life, more's the pity. But pain should not destroy the person who feels it.
Mary Balogh
#49. Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
Nancy Lancaster
#50. I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
Tony Judt
#51. The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.
Mohnish Pabrai
#52. The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#53. But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.
Thomas Yellowtail
#54. I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.
Michael Holroyd
#55. One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#56. One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
Yoshida Kenko
#57. To murder freedom ... well, that's to murder my time. And no one should have the right to kill anyone else's time.
Cassandra Kemper
#58. I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
Edward Everett Hale
#59. Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
[Lat., Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
Ovid
#60. For the purpose of success one should believe but after this to fight for it.
Radostin Chernev
#61. [ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.
H.J. Brues
#63. Damn them for tormenting me! Don't they see I'm not what they think? That they are casting upon me the weight of their own hopes? Their own dreams? No one should be asked to carry such a burden. It's impossible! He
Ian C. Esslemont
#64. One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
Ivar Giaever
#66. No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.
CrimethInc.
#67. In any soul, the Condemned Man argued, was the ability to create a whole world, as big and variegated as the one that he and the Magistrate lived in. But if this was true of the Innocent, it was true of the Condemned Man as well, and so he should not - no one should ever - be put to death.
Neal Stephenson
#68. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski
#69. On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.
Melyssa Winchester
#70. Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and
if at all possible
speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.
Steve Breen
#72. Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#73. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
Oscar Wilde
#74. If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
Honeya
#76. No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
Orison Swett Marden
#77. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Gautama Buddha
#78. I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
Catherynne M Valente
#79. One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Oscar Wilde
#80. A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?
Rick Yancey
#81. One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
Imagawa Sadayo
#82. While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.
Howard W. Hunter
#83. One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
Peter George Peterson
#84. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle.
#85. Perhaps one should expect to be attended to by philosophers in Edinburgh delicatessens, just as one might be waited upon by psychoanalysts in the restaurants of Buenos Aires. Is the braised beef really what you want?
Alexander McCall Smith
#86. It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.
Jim Butcher
#87. One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
#88. But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
Dario Argento
#89. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#90. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#91. One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).
Dada Bhagwan
#92. Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.
Isabel Allende
#93. To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand
#95. Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .
Rajneesh
#97. One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.
Cassandra Clare
#98. Reading the article he wished for more detail ... But the media was the last place one should look for truth. A person was lucky to find the facts, let alone the truth.
Jason Mott
#99. China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Gary Locke
#100. No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.
Naomi Campbell
