All Quotes

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
‐‐ Ray Stannard Baker

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
‐‐ Ed Smith

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
‐‐ Lev Yilmaz

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
‐‐ Daniel Goldstein

One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
‐‐ Andrew Young

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.
‐‐ Janet Reno

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
‐‐ Patricia Schroeder

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
‐‐ Yochai Benkler

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
‐‐ Steven Bochco

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
‐‐ Alphonso Jackson

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
‐‐ John Pomfret

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
‐‐ Michael Gove

One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
‐‐ Paul Begala

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
‐‐ Michael Gove

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.
‐‐ Jyoti Amge

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?
‐‐ Ken Ham

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
‐‐ Steve Case

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
‐‐ Bobby Scott

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
‐‐ Chuck D

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
‐‐ Hal Holbrook

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
‐‐ Vince McMahon