The One Quotes

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream.

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.