The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
JOHN: are you... JOHN: are you gay now? DAVE: what no KARKAT: (THE WORDS. WHY WON'T THE WORDS STOP. DEAR GOD.) JOHN: i dunno, it sounds to me like you're trying tell me something here! DAVE: man no look JOHN: i mean, it's ok if you're gay now! JOHN: ...
