All Quotes

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
‐‐ Alan Shearer

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
‐‐ Bojana Novakovic

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
‐‐ Judith Viorst

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
‐‐ Lisa Kristine

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
‐‐ Franklin P. Jones

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
‐‐ Claire Scovell LaZebnik

One afternoon, I was playing this new video game, 'Blood and Guts.' I was controlling Gruesome Gus versus the Crimson Menace, and I had totally waxed the guy. It was this really complex sequence of moves, and I was so excited about conquering the game that I wanted to show it to someone. Unfortunately, the only one home at the time was Mom.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
‐‐ Iman

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
‐‐ Robert Frost

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
‐‐ Josh Silver

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
‐‐ Robert Moog

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.
‐‐ Richard J. Roberts

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
‐‐ Chris Frantz

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
‐‐ Pierre Bonnard

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
‐‐ Bernadette Devlin

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
‐‐ John Fiske

One and God make a majority.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
‐‐ Mae West

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
‐‐ George Sand

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.
‐‐ Theresa May

One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
‐‐ Bethany Hamilton

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
‐‐ John G. D. Clark

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.
‐‐ Nell Carter

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
‐‐ C. K. Williams

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
‐‐ Victor Hugo