The One Quotes

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.