Top 100 One Which Quotes
#1. I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.
David Duchovny
#2. An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.
Stephen Richards
#3. Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film.
Guy Ritchie
#5. Hence the sacred attitude is one which does not recoil from our own inner emptiness, but rather penetrates into it with awe and reverence, and with the awareness of mystery.
Thomas Merton
#6. Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.
Andy Murray
#7. It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
Amitabh Bachchan
#8. That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.
Daniel Alarcon
#9. Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful ... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
Anne Michaels
#10. A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
W.J. Raymond
#11. Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKenna
#12. It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question: What is the meaning of la ilaha illa Allah? Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
#13. Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
Julia Quinn
#14. I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
Jane Goodall
#15. The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
#16. In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.
Anthony Trollope
#17. Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.
William Barclay
#18. We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
John Dewey
#19. It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis
#20. The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
Norman McLaren
#21. Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Henry Miller
#22. I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.
Frederick The Great
#23. I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
Daniel Berrigan
#24. There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
Lancelot Hogben
#25. The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore De Balzac
#26. There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
Pierre Trudeau
#27. Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C.S. Lewis
#28. A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
Roger Bacon
#29. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr
#30. JOH6.40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Anonymous
#31. The darkest light is one which is only registered by those who understand its true obscurity.
Suzanne Steele
#33. The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
Elizabeth Janeway
#34. History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
Montesquieu
#35. Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
William Howard Taft
#36. Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
Roger Scruton
#37. 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
#39. All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.
John Randolph
#40. We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
#41. No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed.
Ryan Holiday
#42. 34. Not equal are the good and the bad response. You shall resort to the one which is better. Thus, the one who used to be your enemy, may become your best friend.
The Monotheist Group
#43. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.
Luther Burbank
#44. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Ray Bradbury
#45. In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
Gottfried Leibniz
#46. The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner
Sergei Rachmaninoff
#47. The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Gene Spafford
#48. So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Richard Branson
#49. A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
Richard Dawkins
#50. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. The best gift a man gives is one which he himself would like to keep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
Carl Maria Von Weber
#53. It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#54. A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.
Joan Miro
#55. I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.
John Knowles
#56. The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
James G. Frazer
#57. Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#58. I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
Andrea Bocelli
#59. This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
#61. Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.
J.R. Ward
#62. The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#63. Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.
John Stuart Mill
#64. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Edmund Waller
#65. We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
#66. Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
Marcel Proust
#67. The term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is; 'adult' he is not.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#68. I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
Charles Sheeler
#69. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#70. Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
Irvin D. Yalom
#71. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
#72. I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"
Robert Dessaix
#73. A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.
Alexandre Dumas
#74. The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.
Francois Hollande
#75. The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
Michael Musto
#76. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#77. We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
#78. Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
Julio Cortazar
#79. The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!
Pope Francis
#80. And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless,
Niccolo Machiavelli
#81. If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.
Roy Sesana
#83. But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
David Bohm
#84. He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated grayness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.
Terry Pratchett
#85. FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.
Bill Bryson
#86. Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.
Ernst Haas
#87. The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
Epictetus
#88. If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori
#89. A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant
#90. How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#91. Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia
#92. The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.
Neville Goddard
#93. A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.
Sebastian Coe
#95. There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!
Marcus L. Lukusa
#96. A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlin
#97. The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.
Blaise Pascal
#98. Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
George Gershwin
#99. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
#100. The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.
Enzo Ferrari
