Top 100 To Be One Quotes
#2. If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is.
John Steinbeck
#4. I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.
Kathleen Turner
#5. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...
Eve A. Floriste
#7. You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
Farrah Fawcett
#8. I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.
Richard Branson
#9. I want to be with you. Not just as a partner, not just as a friend. I want us to be together, to be one, to be ... I don't know, a fucking couple.
Karina Halle
#10. I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.
Michael Pena
#11. Derrick, Samantha, and Michael were all very good at avoiding being murdered. Nanny Piggins considered this to be one of the most important life skills.
R.A. Spratt
#12. 2015 - the year of infinity - if you add all the numbers up you get 8 - which on it's side is the sign of infinity - and I think it's going to be one hell of a good year for us.
Jay Woodman
#13. I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.
Megan Fox
#14. To be 'one' in one's own hands is to be 'one.' To be 'one' in the hands of God is to be 'one' that is far too vast to be counted.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.
Kim Him-chan
#16. I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."
David Rees
#18. In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.
George Washington
#19. I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#20. The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
Pankaj Patel
#21. I want to be one of the youngest actors ever to direct a feature. That would be a nice thing to hear. It might prove to be a bigger challenge than I can take, but that's the career I want, like George Clooney.
Tony Revolori
#22. If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
Craig Ferguson
#23. Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
Leo Szilard
#25. There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one'... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'.
Charles Baudelaire
#26. I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
Billy Gardell
#27. All that two lovers want, is to be one with the other in a moment of ecstasy.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.
Hendrik Poinar
#29. I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.
Lisa Stansfield
#30. I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing.
Ryan Lewis
#31. You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.
Cory Booker
#32. I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
Alice Walker
#33. You don't need to look like a monster to be one,' replied the Doctor.
Trevor Baxendale
#34. You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.
Ryan Murphy
#35. There had to be one universe - just this one - where we don't end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.
Gaby Dunn
#36. Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.
Vincent Kompany
#37. I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
Miles Davis
#38. I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-"
"She's foul enough to be one ... "
"Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
J.K. Rowling
#39. A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.
Tom Hardy
#40. I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Josh Billings
#41. Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain.
Rumi
#42. To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Suzy Kassem
#43. But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley
#44. If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.
Karen Armstrong
#45. I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
Carla Gugino
#46. It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
Clark Gable
#47. I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
Richard Lamm
#48. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
John Green
#49. I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
#50. Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
Felix Salmon
#51. Grandma laughed. "You'd be surprised. It's awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.
Arleta Richardson
#52. I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years.
Robert Kazinsky
#53. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.
Megan McCafferty
#54. Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.
Michael Bloomberg
#55. Better to be afraid of witches and murderers than to be one.
Tabitha Morrow
#56. My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#57. You are your own worst enemy. So to enjoy life, tell yourself to sit down, shut up, and hang on, because it's going to be one Hell of a ride!
A.M. Sawyer
#58. But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara Jordan
#59. I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
George Placzek
#60. I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.
Meryl Streep
#61. That has to be one of the dumbest phrases Christians use: "finding God's will." We don't have to "find" God's will, because it's not lost. "The Lord ... is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9 NKJV). His will is that we be involved in that mission.
J.D. Greear
#62. The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
Djuna Barnes
#63. Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.
Michael Ian Black
#64. There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
Nirmala Srivastava
#65. The world is a loony bin [...]. Luckily for us, our front door happens to be one of its exits.
John Wray
#66. There are legends. You used to be one." She says coolly, "I am legend.
Karen Marie Moning
#67. The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it ... is now universally admitted.
John Marshall
#68. This here's war, and sometimes there's casualties. You hope to God not to be one, but you go in accepting the risk. Especially if something's worth fighting for.
Denise Grover Swank
#69. I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
Brion James
#70. To become a vampire, you must be bitten by one. To become a ninja, you first have to allow yourself to be one.
Jarius Raphel
#71. My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
Clive Davis
#72. Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Donald G. Mitchell
#73. I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.
Ernest Hemingway,
#74. Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#75. I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
George Saunders
#76. This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.
Justin Simien
#77. I don't think it is strange at all,' Arsinoe says. 'Don't you see? It has to be one of us. It has to be her. My whole life I have heard that it has to be her. That I have to die, so that she can lead. That I do not matter, because she's here.
Kendare Blake
#78. You'll have more than enough people underestimating you in your lifetime, Kyali Corwynall. You cannot afford to be one of them.
Amy Bai
#79. I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.
Stefon Harris
#80. I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green
#81. There is already enough wars in this world. Love was not meant to be one of them, Save the ammunition.
Cody Solomon
#82. I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.
Kelsey Chow
#83. Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#84. I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
Jamie Cullum
#85. Good. But why written in three styles of script?" To which Nancy had replied: "Because I'm not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.
Truman Capote
#86. Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.
Francois Guizot
#87. You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one
David Mitchell
#88. You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.
Andy Serkis
#89. I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
James Fallows
#90. Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
Guy Finley
#91. To continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.
Jack Straw
#92. I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.
Bob Seger
#93. The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.
Julia Stiles
#95. 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!
J.K. Rowling
#96. It had to be one of the worst hurts in the entire world - being embarrassed by someone who was meant to protect you, not humiliate you
Mia Sheridan
#97. I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.
Alexa Chung
#98. Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
Brian Kilmeade
#99. As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.
Ronnie Shakes
#100. Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
Wendy Kopp
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