Top 100 One Thing Only Quotes
#1. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#2. One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare Pavese
#3. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
Bernard Cornwell
#4. What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
#5. The only thing I knew to do with a man was what I'd learned from my parents: to fight or not fight. I had no idea how to craft a partnership beyond that one basic thing.
Veronica Chambers
#6. One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet.
Robyn Schneider
#7. I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.
Famke Janssen
#8. There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
Albert Camus
#9. Woman's bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.
Jean Kilbourne
#10. The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.
Polly Horvath
#11. The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.
Joseph Heller
#12. There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. We have a history," I say, "that no one can take from us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what happens from here, it can't take away from the good thing we had. You were my first love, Demi. You only get one.
Winter Renshaw
#14. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read
#15. I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#16. There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet
#17. I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
Eli Roth
#18. Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Harry Truman
#19. Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.
R.K. Cowles
#20. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
William Eggleston
#21. Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin
#22. You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
Neil Young
#23. No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#24. Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
Mick Jagger
#25. Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. The thing is, I'm not the only one this consciousness stuff is happening to.
Sara Wiseman
#27. Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
Kate Morton
#28. But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
#29. It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
Bing Gordon
#31. There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
G.K. Chesterton
#32. One thing to know about me: I dig. If I can't find it - I dig deeper, harder. I dig until I find it. The only thing I couldn't dig into was my own mind. I didn't want to see it.
Tarryn Fisher
#33. When it comes to semantic search and the success of your social media policy, truly, there is only one thing that absolutely counts: engagement.
David Amerland
#34. You have nothing with which to bargain. You can offer Jesus only one thing - belief. He simply asks, "Do you believe in Me?
Cary Schmidt
#35. A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.
Jimmy Fallon
#36. I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.
Emile Chartier
#37. What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.
David S. Baxter
#38. There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
Anthony Trollope
#39. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
Sebastian Horsley
#40. Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.
James Altucher
#41. Zoey feels the void waver, flex as if it will break and everything inside her will come spilling out. But then Ken's face appears in her mind and she knows if he were here right now, she would only do one thing differently. She would kill him slower.
Joe Hart
#42. After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
Campbell Scott
#43. I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.
Thucydides
#46. Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.
Jill Soloway
#47. The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
Odd Nerdrum
#48. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise Pascal
#49. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.
Terri Cheney
#50. Only different people change the world," Granny used to say. "No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.
Fredrik Backman
#51. the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.
- period, end of story.
Amanda Lovelace
#52. Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
W. Somerset Maugham
#53. When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?
Yasmin Mogahed
#54. The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.
Gene Simmons
#55. Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile.
Vicki Pettersson
#56. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. On Dreams
Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.
Vincent Lowry
#58. If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
Karl Kraus
#59. If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.
Sasha Grey
#61. One thing I've learnt in life is that you only know where things start. You never know where it's going to end up.
Vicki McAuley
#62. At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.
Stephen Richards
#63. There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
John Berryman
#64. Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.
Thomas Troward
#65. Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill
#66. There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.
Jennifer Donnelly
#67. 47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#68. Full and aching and tingling and spiraling, hanging on for dear life, letting go of every other thought and focused only on one thing - let it go, let it go, let it go.
Robyn Carr
#69. Am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature.
I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions.
Seth
#70. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen Keller
#71. A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.
Thomas Hughes
#72. The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
Oscar Wilde
#73. Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
Cheryl Strayed
#74. I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything.
Paulo Coelho
#75. If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.
Lloyd Banks
#76. And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
John Steinbeck
#77. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
George S. Clason
#78. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."
Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
Patrick Rothfuss
#79. The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
Lydia Davis
#80. Everybody had one thing in common: we were all taught to hate Israel and the Jews. In the universal hatred that was preached against Jews, virtually no distinction was made between the Jewish religion and the Israeli state. In my Christian private school, we studied only the New Testament.
Brigitte Gabriel
#81. We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego
Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
#82. There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
Vaclav Havel
#83. They are all I have left - the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing.
To see him again.
But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.
Christopher Pike
#84. There's no such a thing as American, Belgian, or Nigerian blood. There's only one kind: human blood.
Ben Tolosa
#85. You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.
Ralph Moody
#86. One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
Andre Gide
#87. Stuntwork ... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
Ciaran Hinds
#88. But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days.
Six days to figure out who I really am.
Walter Sorrells
#89. Should I apologize for my species for trotting out the same compliment again and again? Isn't it better than having none at all?"
"When you hear the same one again and again, it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that it's the only thing of note about one's person.
Julie Anne Long
#90. The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.
Luis Polonia
#91. I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Alber Elbaz
#92. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
#93. I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
Tim McCarver
#94. The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style ... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends will suddenly show up ... to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit.
John R Noe
#96. Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.
Donald Trump
#97. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Paulo Coelho
#98. graphic design has only one thing left to do, which is posting itself on the internet?
Metahaven
#99. It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Lynd
#100. Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
Thomas Jefferson
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