Top 100 Ones They Quotes
#1. Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.
Yiyun Li
#2. That's the thing about the broken ones - they're never too far beyond repair, even though it might seem that way. They just need a little glue and the right pair of hands to stick 'em back together.
Carmen Jenner
#3. don't go blaming yourself for your son's mistakes. You can't blame yourself for their mistakes any more than you can take credit for the right ones they make.
J.L. Whitehead
#4. The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.
Robert Charles Wilson
#5. The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy ... but infuriate the rest of us.
Simon Sinek
#6. People can do extraordinary things to save the ones they love.
Samantha Young
#7. The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
Ann Voskamp
#8. The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.
Alexandra Stoddard
#9. In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
Charlie Kaufman
#10. No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.
Paul Mooney
#11. Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale
#12. I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
Tamora Pierce
#13. There is no sight more appealing on this planet than a person actually preparing food for the ones they love.
G.S. Johnston
#14. Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.
Gordon Dahlquist
#15. In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
#16. I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love."
"I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't
like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?
Karen Hawkins
#17. Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#18. Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
Malcolm Forbes
#19. You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.
Evel Knievel
#20. When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.
Carl Zimmer
#21. You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.
Flower A. Newhouse
#22. The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore
#23. Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.
Ann E. Burg
#24. The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
Pandora Poikilos
#25. The power of one man doesn't amount to much. But, however little strength I'm capable of ... I'll do everything humanly possible to protect the people I love, and in turn they'll protect the ones they love. It seems like the least we tiny humans can do for each other
Hiromu Arakawa
#26. I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.
Mark Udall
#27. But I am even more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.
I am humanity.
Rick Yancey
#28. Do you not feel', said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, 'that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily.
Angela Carter
#29. All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.
Steven Seagal
#30. Some people lose the ones they love, and then realize they never truly appreciated what they had.
Jason Pellegrini
#31. There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.
Jodi Picoult
#32. Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
Aidan Chambers
#33. When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.
Donna Lynn Hope
#34. New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.
Carl Jung
#35. What is this power the dead have over the ones they leave behind? It's strange and beautiful and frightening, this deathless love that human being continue to feel for the ones they've lost.
Sangu Mandanna
#36. Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.
Osman Welela
#37. The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#38. The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves
Muhammad Ali
#39. Children are angels.
They are protected by God.
But because God cannot be seen, they feel lonely ...
... so they bid farewell to God ...
... and go to live with people.
They let go of the paradise that protected them ...
... to be loved by the ones they love.
Arina Tanemura
#41. People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.
James Meek
#42. You should get those stretchy underpants all the gay porn stars are wearing these days and wear them instead of those blue Lycra-looking ones. They make all their dicks look huge."
"Because all their dicks are huge," I said. "They're called trophy briefs for a reason.
N.R. Walker
#44. They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.
Diane Ackerman
#45. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.
Anonymous
#46. When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.
Patrick Suskind
#47. Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.
C.S. Lewis
#48. There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.
Novalis
#49. One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.
Craig Venter
#50. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?
Charles Edwards
#51. Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#52. I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Orson Scott Card
#53. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
Larry Kramer
#55. Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
Nicholas Sparks
#56. Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.
Nelson Mandela
#57. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel
#58. I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.
Sergio Aragones
#59. The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
G. Willow Wilson
#60. Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them - usually - but lose the experience itself. We
Octavia E. Butler
#62. Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.
Terry Leahy
#63. Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
Kara DioGuardi
#64. He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe that's what made them great.
Amy Lane
#65. My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.
Dominique Moceanu
#66. King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while.
Emma Clifton
#67. We're pieces on a gameboard, Dr. March, and some of us are more powerful than others. You. Me. Her. We're the ones the gods want. We're the ones they're fighting over.
Richelle Mead
#68. Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#69. Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.
Chris Martin
#70. He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.
Hanif Kureishi
#71. For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.
John Ridley
#72. Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch
#73. Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.
Lewis B. Smedes
#74. We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.
Stacy Schiff
#75. The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road ... then trees.
Robert Liparulo
#76. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#77. The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
Mitch Albom
#78. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
Paul Graham
#79. Eliot had only one pair of shoes, black ones. They had a crackle finish as a result of an experiment. Eliot once tried to polish them with Johnson's Glo-Coat, which was a floorwax, not intended for shoes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#80. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
Nhat Hanh
#81. Luminet males had definite differences from human ones. They were taller, generally bigger, their bones were denser, but the really big difference was the ability to elongate their tongues. She'd heard about it even before Aeron, but actually feeling it...
Savannah Stuart
#82. The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.
Robert Farrar Capon
#83. He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
Adam Langer
#84. No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.
Robin Wasserman
#85. People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.
Stephen King
#86. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#87. The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
Willem Dafoe
#88. Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.
Rob Bell
#90. What did people do when the ones they needed died? She lay curled on her bed, feeling as though part of her chest had been roughly scooped out, left raw and exposed.
Helene Wecker
#91. All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
Berry Gordy
#92. American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
John Philip Sousa
#93. It's a fun world to exist in, and I relish doing those movies as much as I do the smaller ones. They're always immense fun. I don't know if I am - unless we do a Benji film, I don't think I am an action hero really.
Simon Pegg
#94. It's kind of strange ... All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real.
Maurissa Guibord
#95. I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.
Patti Smith
#96. I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
Haruki Murakami
#97. Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl," her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.
B. J. Daniels
#98. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; merely in different rooms.
Paulo Coelho
#99. I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am.
Jai Uttal
#100. New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
Astra Taylor