The One Thing Quotes

#1. If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

Kelly Cutrone

#2. I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

Sutton Foster

#3. I fell in love with you in a blink of an eye, Ava. You represented everything I could ever want and the one thing I was most terrified to ask for. The power of what I was feeling scared me to my very core and made me love you and hate myself for being the wrong man for you

Diana T. Scott

#4. The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

Matt Taibbi

#5. If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.

Kelle Sparta

#6. Dorian?"
"Yeah?:
"I want my mummy in our web."
Dorian's heart kicked in his chest. "She will be." It was the one thing he wouldn't compromise on. And if that made him animal in his possessiveness, so be it.

Nalini Singh

#7. Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Frank Crane

#8. I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

Neil Gaiman

#9. You're the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can't go where I walk.

Abbi Glines

#10. Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

Peggy Guggenheim

#11. But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

Lionel Shriver

#12. I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Daphne Guinness

#13. The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Rick Pitino

#14. The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

Mira Grant

#15. Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

#16. The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.

Alan Alda

#17. One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from ... me.

Jenny Lawson

#18. Remington Tate, I swear to you - I swear - that when I'm able to get up from this stupid bed and run again, you're always, always, going to be the one thing I'll run straight to.

Katy Evans

#19. The one sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.

Liz Rosenberg

#20. Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

C.J. Roberts

#21. The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Jessica Livingston

#22. The one thing she seems to aim at is Individuality; yet she cares nothing for individuals.8

Erich Neumann

#23. I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

Oren Peli

#24. Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands ... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Nate Corddry

#25. The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Doug Morris

#26. The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Tom Robbins

#27. The one thing I did learn at Florida State, I learned to talk trash, believe that

Randy Moss

#28. I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt

#29. Standing Post One that day was the scariest thing I've ever done. The one thing that got me through it was that I knew I was a Marine and, because of that, I knew I could do it.

Greg Matos

#30. You'd think you'd been singled out of all the women in the world for this crowning indignity." "What if I do!" she cried angrily. "It isn't an indignity for them. It's their one excuse for living. It's the one thing they're good for. It is an indignity for me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.

Arno Hintjens

#32. I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

Robert Mueller

#33. The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Bud Selig

#34. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

Matthew Kelly

#35. But you know," he continued, "in all the regrets I have, the one thing that never bothered me were the decisions I made with my heart. The rational ones, the ones I made while I was scared or desperate, those hammer at me constantly." - Nero

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

David Suzuki

#37. The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

James Cook

#38. Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

Kiera Cass

#39. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

Eddie Van Halen

#40. I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I

Patrick DeWitt

#41. (The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.)

Gillian Flynn

#42. The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

Christian Scott

#43. The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

Michael J. Fox

#44. Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.

G-Eazy

#45. I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

Mikko Hypponen

#46. There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.

Kenneth Chenault

#47. I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

Alber Elbaz

#48. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

Mike Rowe

#49. The one thing I'm very aware of is I've never been particularly good at relationships.

Thomas Sadoski

#50. The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time - never judges, just is.

Frederick Lenz

#51. only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie's pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul's peace. Frank. That was the single idea that had driven me through this day, sustained me well past the

Diana Gabaldon

#52. Being a true friend is giving of the one thing you can NOT get back; Time

Angel Dust

#53. Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

Richard Florida

#54. Let's all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable. Life can be scary and leave us hiding, but when we come out of hiding, we may realize, that life was the one thing that we could always count on ...

Holly Hood

#55. The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

David Pratt

#56. Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have happened in the last 15-20 years is that hysteria is the last thing we need. Cool thinking, pragmatism, and analytical thought are most important at this point.

Greg Proops

#57. Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Wasserman

#58. I didn't even know I was lost until you found me.I didn't know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You're the one thing I've got right. You've what I've been waiting for, Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#59. I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Ron Livingston

#60. God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me." - The Dreamer

James McBride

#61. I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I've thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush.

Drew Barrymore

#62. People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

Elbert Hubbard

#64. Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Ed Wood

#65. The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

Marianne Wiggins

#66. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Annie Dillard

#67. The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually ... but I can't really do it.

Thom Yorke

#68. I reminded myself that the one thing Jenny Flick couldn't buy, no matter what she used as currency, was a ticket to drive on the high road next to people like me.

A.S. King

#69. Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

Dale E. Jones

#70. People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#71. But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.

Michael Flynn

#72. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.

Eric Hoffer

#73. The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

Alberto Giacometti

#74. The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

#75. The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#76. Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

Ethel Merman

#77. Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you
whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)

Elizabeth Chandler

#78. I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.

Jason Katims

#79. I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Jane Green

#80. I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

Angela Lansbury

#81. How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#82. Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Charles Spurgeon

#83. The English language is the one thing the Commonwealth still has in common.

Niall Ferguson

#84. From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Olivia Wilde

#85. As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Garth Brooks

#86. He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

Maya Banks

#87. The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.

George M. Church

#88. The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

John Lancaster Spalding

#89. I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

Charles Spurgeon

#90. People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."

Jen Kirkman

#91. The one thing about me is that I don't even know where I'll end up, and I don't know what I'll be doing but I know that I'll never really stop.

Mika.

#92. All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Rachel Bilson

#93. ... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

George Friedman

#94. The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something.

Meg Jay

#95. When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Bruno Heller

#96. The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Lady Bird Johnson

#97. Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Tennessee Williams

#98. The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal.

Chris Waddle

#99. Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today's the day to make those choices really count.

Michael Hyatt

#100. The one thing coaches cannot tolerate ... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

Zig Ziglar