We Are One Quotes

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

Speak but one word to me.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.