All Quotes

One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to provide businesses with more information about business opportunities in Connecticut. That's both to businesses that are here already and also to businesses that are not located here, but might be interested in coming.
‐‐ Susan Bysiewicz

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
‐‐ Anita Hill

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
‐‐ Tablo

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.
‐‐ Andy Murray

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
‐‐ Matt Groening

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
‐‐ Adam Dell

One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western.
‐‐ Ken Marino

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
‐‐ Rafael Cruz

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
‐‐ Julius Erving

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
‐‐ Kevin Powers

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
‐‐ Michel Faber

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
‐‐ Rand Paul

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

One of the things polio does is it takes away your energy. They don't know very much about it. They should be a lot more aware of what polio is.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
‐‐ Samantha Power

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
‐‐ Lynne Truss

One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.
‐‐ Marie Rutkoski

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
‐‐ Larry McMurtry

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.
‐‐ Chris Ware

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
‐‐ Anna Faris

One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
‐‐ Omar Ahmad

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
‐‐ Jeffrey Bell