Top 100 Quotes About That One
#1. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.
Melina Marchetta
#2. We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
Jean Cocteau
#3. All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In
Bill O'Reilly
#4. Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So
Harlan Coben
#5. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it
Oscar Wilde
#6. The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
Jean Reno
#7. The critics of modernity were warning that one must be vigilant against the demands of hyperorganized commercial society and consumerism lest they undermine one's true humanity.
George M. Marsden
#8. You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#9. scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses
Lemony Snicket
#10. Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.
Walter E. Williams
#11. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,
Robert Hughes
#12. Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Now, there is no such thing as 'man' in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on. I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare I've never encountered him.
Joseph De Maistre
#14. With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that ... pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.
Stephen Richards
#15. The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.
Margaret Clitherow
#16. Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
Robert Breault
#17. The reader will have noticed that one no longer treats the siege of Troy as a myth. To do so would be to exhibit a most uncritical mind; even the legends of King Arthur have a historic foundation, and those of the Nibelungen are still more probable.
Leonard W. King
#18. [ ... ]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world of shadows, when there were sounds that one could not understand and when each one of us was in some sense alone.
Alexander McCall Smith
#19. [Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
Will Cuppy
#20. Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen
#21. Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
#22. Act as though this one patient is the only person in the world - because to do otherwise is to lose that one, too. One at a time, that's all you can do. And you learn not to despair over all the ones you can't help, but only to do what you can.
Diana Gabaldon
#23. That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place - so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.
Jim Butcher
#24. Albert knew that one could never be sure about magic, but a lack of certainty is not a good reason to do nothing.
Howard L. Anderson
#25. I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.
John Irving
#26. I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Jane Austen
#27. I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter
#28. Rather, it provided a literary framework within which the author could effectively express the Hebraic conviction that one God created the world by bringing order out of chaos. He was interested in thematic rather than chronological organization. The
Gregory A. Boyd
#29. I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
#30. In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
Mother Teresa
#31. The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.
William Browning Spencer
#32. Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one - just one - had made its way down towards the Mid-Atlantic.
The rumored Dead Walker lived.
Laurel Jay
#33. We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
Arthur Machen
#34. It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
#35. Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
Chuck Yeager
#36. Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die?
John Green
#38. Max had said two things to Jean during their good-byes. First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes--and then begin to tell their story. "Remain silent about the dead, and they'll never leave you in peace.
Nina George
#39. The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one's heart.
Gary Snyder
#40. To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
Joshua Bell
#42. Harry! Don't you see? Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! Voldemort
J.K. Rowling
#43. Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself!
Herve Guibert
#44. Sparks. Good metaphor. Walking on crumpled tinfoil. I'd have to remember that one.
Brandon Sanderson
#45. The impossible is the least that one can demand.
James Baldwin
#46. I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
Ratan Tata
#47. What does this compassion entail? ... It means understanding one's connection to the whole of creation: understanding that one is part of that creation, that there is a unity that underlies all that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel.
Jackie Tabick
#48. Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp
#49. Could you see yourself sitting down to tea with these girls? Will it surprise you to learn that one of them went on to gun down three unarmed German prisoners? Will it shock you to learn that one lit her cigarette from the flames of a burning German SS officer?
Michael Grant
#50. It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.
Anthony Trollope
#51. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#52. Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.
Shekhar Kapur
#53. It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#54. If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
Michele Bachmann
#55. I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
Freya Stark
#56. My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.
Steven Pinker
#57. One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
Robert Browning
#58. It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.
Mario Bunge
#60. Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
#61. Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.
William Wilberforce
#62. Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.
Zach Braff
#63. What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.
Jason Schwartzman
#64. Oh, and when you kiss me and pull away to tell me I'm pretty? Don't like that one damn bit. Why can't you just be like other guys who ignore their girlfriends? It's so unfair that I have to deal with this.
Tarryn Fisher
#65. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
John Niven
#66. As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65
Marcel Benabou
#67. She was the sky full of surprises. Her dreams were blue and breathtaking as a bright day and her secrets were dark and poetic as a cold night. Either way, she was the most beautiful mess that one had ever come across.
Akshay Vasu
#68. If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.
Emmet Fox
#69. Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
Simone De Beauvoir
#70. This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Sometimes you get an image of someone stuck in your head and then you can't let go of it even after they show you they've changed. All you can see is that one side of them.
Rebecca Phillips
#72. All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms.
Erwin Schrodinger
#73. But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal that one most loves life and the world.
Alexander Nehamas
#74. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
#75. I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.
Bob Saget
#76. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#77. For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
Steven Seagal
#78. My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.
Susan Sontag
#79. Fucking pyromanic, Crazier'n a male crab, that one.
Abigail Roux
#80. It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.
Mia Ryan
#81. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.
Shalom Auslander
#82. Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#83. It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.
Katie Cotugno
#84. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.
Mike Ditka
#85. Tiffany looked around - the hiver looked around - and thought: I've got to be the strongest. When I am strongest, I shall be safe. That one is weak. She thinks you can buy magic.
Terry Pratchett
#86. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,
Aung San Suu Kyi
#87. When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years....
"When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting...
Daleen Van Tonder
#88. The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it's one of the easiest sins to commit while convincing oneself that one is being faithful. The
Russell D. Moore
#89. I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
Jonathan Carroll
#90. Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.
T.F. Hodge
#91. I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
Mahesh Babu
#92. It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never alone; it is in the deep silence that one hears the hidden music - the chant of eternity, the illuminated whisper of love. - Heather K. O'Hara, from: THE PATH OF SONGS
Heather K. O'Hara
#94. I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Alan Dundes
#95. Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?
Brian L. Roberts
#96. In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The
Jean Plaidy
#97. I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
Petrus Borel
#98. One of the drawbacks of power and success is that one is judged, not against what came before but against the heights of one's own achievements....
Pedro Barrento
#99. If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book ... it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.
Tao Lin
#100. After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.
Sam Walton
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