One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada
One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.
‐‐ Jim Barksdale
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
‐‐ James Fenton
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen
One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.
‐‐ Michio Kaku
One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
‐‐ Anita Elberse
One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
‐‐ Gary Weiss
One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.
‐‐ Jessica Szohr
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
‐‐ Ellen Potter
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
‐‐ Mo Udall
One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.
‐‐ John Mellencamp
One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
‐‐ Kim Jee-woon
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
‐‐ Robert Mankoff
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
‐‐ Bruce Feiler
One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius
One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
‐‐ Helen Frankenthaler
One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
‐‐ Manish Dayal
One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
‐‐ John Burroughs
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
‐‐ Ira Glass
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
‐‐ Piers Anthony
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
‐‐ Seth Godin
One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
‐‐ Maria Semple
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
‐‐ Marco Arment
One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.
‐‐ James Wolcott
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
‐‐ Bernie Taupin
One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.
‐‐ Rob Thomas
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
‐‐ Martin Filler
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
‐‐ Martha Beck
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
‐‐ Al Kaline
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
‐‐ Robert Byrne
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
‐‐ Tony Robbins
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.
‐‐ Robert Jay Lifton
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.
‐‐ Michael Moss
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about Bill Cosby is that he made lots of Americans feel good about two things we rarely have reason to feel good about: race and gender.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister
One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.
‐‐ Kent Conrad
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
‐‐ Jane Hirshfield
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
‐‐ Lynn Fontanne
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
‐‐ Nancy Astor
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
‐‐ Julian Baggini
One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.
‐‐ Terry Teachout