Top 100 Quotes About One Direction
#1. Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zayn Malik
#2. Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#3. But after a while, you know, I find it better to face in one direction, in front of you, just let the past lay and get on with it,
James Patterson
#4. If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.
Alberto Villoldo
#5. One Direction was an incredible experience in its own right, and it's a part of me, an integral part of my history, and I'm never going to deny that aspect of my life.
Zayn Malik
#6. Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.
Max Heindel
#7. It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.
Pascal Lamy
#8. Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
Terry Pratchett
#9. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
Tom Stoppard
#10. There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.
Amanda Palmer
#12. You cant ever know anyone completely, can you? I mean, we're ever changing, maturing, growing ... Each day we're confronted by new outside influences that have us forever making decisions that take us one or two steps in one direction or the other - continually altering our course. - Jason Miller
Ethan Day
#13. Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
Mohsin Hamid
#15. There's only one direction you can coast.
Brian Tracy
#16. You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#17. There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.
Trevor Noah
#19. No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
Barry White
#20. Life just changes. Like a stormy headwind, Camille thought. First blowing the sails in one direction and then, without warning at all, shifting course.
Angie Frazier
#21. You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.
Shane Filan
#22. Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.
Mark Twain
#23. Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#24. The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.
Charles P. Issawi
#25. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
Ken Follett
#26. I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Zadie Smith
#27. What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.
Davy Rothbart
#29. Zayn's good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.
Louis Tomlinson
#30. It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.
Noah Hawley
#31. The faith state ... is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction ... [p.272]
William James
#32. A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.
Steven Erikson
#33. I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#34. I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.
Zhang Xiaogang
#35. I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he's the mature one.
Kristin Harmel
#36. Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Albert Einstein
#37. Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason - in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe's life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.
J.R. Ward
#38. Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Isadora Duncan
#39. We are all time travelers...only most people choose to go in one direction.
Jason Cockcroft
#40. Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Jean Fleming
#41. America's corporate and political elites
now form a regime of their own and
they're privatizing democracy. All the
benefits - the tax cuts, policies and
rewards flow in one direction: up.
Bill Moyers
#42. They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
Dwight Schultz
#43. When I was still in One Direction, fans would write stories based on me and the other lads and publish them online, it's crazy to think that we inspired so many different stories and the opportunity for so much creativity from so many people all over the world.
Zayn Malik
#44. When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
Armand Hammer
#45. I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.
Carre Otis
#46. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.
Alex London
#47. Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#48. Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
Jeb Hensarling
#49. We gotta get out of here before I set up a tent in here and never leave. You don't know how many guys I saw with tattoos and One Direction hair as I walked in here. Trouble. They are all trouble. Stay away Claire!
Toni Aleo
#50. One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about 'em.
Jake Bugg
#52. Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.
Thomas Ligotti
#53. I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.
Noreena Hertz
#54. Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.
Zayn Malik
#55. Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.
W. H. Auden
#56. To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.
Jerry West
#57. I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.
Walter Murch
#58. Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.
Vladimir Kramnik
#59. Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires.
Dave Barry
#60. I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.
Jamie Blackley
#61. I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.
Steven Soderbergh
#62. Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The
Thomas Hardy
#63. Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!
Carson Daly
#64. It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.
Dinaw Mengestu
#65. Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the shape of an atom so precisely mimicked the shape of the solar system. How there wasn't an end to anything.
Wendy Wunder
#66. That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.
Chester Brown
#67. People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.
River Phoenix
#69. I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
Noel Gallagher
#70. The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Donald Hall
#72. A gray leather couch was against the wall. Above it was a giant framed photo of One Direction.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#73. In flight ... entire days can be wound back or skipped over ... as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.
Josh Gates
#74. I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.
Lauren Oliver
#75. I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.
Rod Carew
#76. No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.
Ammon Shea
#77. My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes ... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things.
Louis Tomlinson
#78. Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
Jerome K. Jerome
#79. I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction.
Brenda Strong
#80. You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction.
John Steinbeck
#81. Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
Edmund Burke
#82. I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
Jonathan Lethem
#83. The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
Margaret Halsey
#84. To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
Eric Maisel
#85. There is no greater catalyst for change in a man than a woman. To love a woman is to become a new kind of man, in one direction or another. A woman holds sway over all. The right woman can assume command of your every part of your being, both body and soul. Her conquest will be total.
Bryan M. Litfin
#86. Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.
Michael Flynn
#87. And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?
John Spratt
#88. Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.
James Corden
#89. Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).
Dada Bhagwan
#90. I snatch the iPod from his hands and stuff it in the bag. "One Direction does some great harmonies." "Strongly disagree." His chin lifts decisively. "I'll make you a playlist. Obviously you need to learn the distinction between good music and shitty music.
Elle Kennedy
#91. Because apparently One Direction's superpower is instant friendship. Someone should ship them to the Middle East so they can get to work on that Israel-Palestine thing.
Emma Chase
#92. Chronological living is a kind of lie. That's why I don't do it anymore. Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other. Completing the days of your life in strict calendar order can feel forced. Arbitrary.
Charles Yu
#93. One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
Liam Payne
#94. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.
Bertrand Russell
#95. I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.
Joyce Carol Oates
#96. One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik
#97. I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
Zayn Malik
#98. My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
Vince Gill
#99. We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
Arthur Golden
#100. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
