All Quotes

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
‐‐ Paul Nitze

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
‐‐ James E. Faust

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
‐‐ Jerry Moran

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
‐‐ Jim Lee

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
‐‐ Jean Kerr

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

One of the most effective ways we started our web efforts in the early 2000s with our first channel Frederator, we basically showcased 1000's of shows on our show over a few years and what that did was introduce us to talented people from all across the world, you name it, we met people all over the place.
‐‐ Fred Seibert

One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
‐‐ Quentin Bryce

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
‐‐ Julia Leigh

One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
‐‐ James M. Buchanan

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.
‐‐ Adam Riess

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
‐‐ Andrew Cohen

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
‐‐ Neal Stephenson

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.
‐‐ Brendon Urie

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
‐‐ James Dyson

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.
‐‐ David E. Kelley

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
‐‐ John Burroughs

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.
‐‐ Criss Angel

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.
‐‐ Nick Lampson

One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.
‐‐ Robert Winston

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
‐‐ Michael Palin

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
‐‐ Bill Keller

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.
‐‐ Ruben Hinojosa

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
‐‐ Mike Love

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
‐‐ Janet Reno

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
‐‐ Frank Gaffney

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
‐‐ Jack Palance

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
‐‐ James Dobson

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
‐‐ Dan Rather

One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
‐‐ David Icke

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
‐‐ Evelyn Lauder

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
‐‐ Marat Safin

One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.
‐‐ Lewis Black

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
‐‐ Carla Gugino

One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
‐‐ Bill Viola

One of the most important things for me is my hair. I've always been about my hair, and I love that my mom and my nana taught me how to take care of it myself. It goes through a lot every day, but I try to keep it healthy. I have to admit, it can get a little dead on the ends.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.
‐‐ Jean Fritz

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
‐‐ Nick Carter

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
‐‐ Mike DeWine

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
‐‐ Taylor Mali

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.
‐‐ Tori Kelly

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
‐‐ Don Marquis

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
‐‐ John Mackey

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
‐‐ Karen Mills

One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'
‐‐ Douglas Adams