All Quotes

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
‐‐ Maimonides

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
‐‐ Ivo Andric

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
‐‐ Orson Welles

One shouldn't know the future.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
‐‐ Margrethe II of Denmark

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
‐‐ Brian Michael Bendis

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
‐‐ Robert Shea

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
‐‐ Tom Peters

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
‐‐ Albert II of Belgium

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
‐‐ Leonid I. Brezhnev

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
‐‐ Bing Gordon

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
‐‐ Pam Brown

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
‐‐ George F. Kennan

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
‐‐ Alexander Fleming

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
‐‐ Victor Hugo

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
‐‐ Paul Graham

One state can't set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
‐‐ Chris Christie

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
‐‐ Edward Burnett Tylor

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
‐‐ Scott Adams

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
‐‐ Jenna McCarthy

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
‐‐ Antoine Lavoisier

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.
‐‐ Jim Rash

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
‐‐ Robert McChesney

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
‐‐ Phoebe Cary

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
‐‐ George Herbert

One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.
‐‐ Robert Reich

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
‐‐ John Avlon

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
‐‐ Nick Mason