The One Quotes
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.
All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.
I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.
I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.
If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.
One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.
Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to start with someone so close.
It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.
One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next, no one wanted me.
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.
Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.
There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.
