One does not become fully human painlessly.
‐‐ Rollo May
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
‐‐ Richard Foreman
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
‐‐ Andre Gide
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
‐‐ George Orwell
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
‐‐ Karl A. Menninger
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
‐‐ Paul Klee
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
‐‐ Jane Austen
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
‐‐ Loren Eiseley
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba
One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
‐‐ Anna Held
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor
One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
‐‐ Alma Gluck
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
‐‐ Euripides
One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
‐‐ Daniel Inouye
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
‐‐ Mitch Leigh
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
‐‐ Larry Gelbart
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch
One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor
One doesn't necessarily have a mission.
‐‐ Nicky Oppenheimer
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
‐‐ Agatha Christie
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.
‐‐ Katharine Graham
One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me.
‐‐ Anna Wintour
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
One doesn't want one's identity coerced.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson
One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
‐‐ Gary Hume
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
‐‐ Brendan Behan
One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.
‐‐ John Trudell
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
‐‐ Gerhard Schroder
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
‐‐ Neale Donald Walsch
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
‐‐ Luis Palau
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
‐‐ Boris Vian
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift
One episode of 'Game of Thrones' is equivalent to my film 'Centurion' in budget and scope. 'Centurion' has a longer running time, but that's kind of the only difference, and I think people now, if they want drama, they watch TV.
‐‐ Neil Marshall
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.
‐‐ Poe Ballantine