Quotes of: The-one-thing Keyword

One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.

Big Boi

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Andrej Pejic

All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people

Life

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get int...

The Secret Garden

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doi...

A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag: America Today

We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things to a single unity. But this urge of the natural reason tends to petri...

God's Son and God's World

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Beautiful Creatures

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

Alexander Kluge

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

The Orphanage of Miracles

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Vegan, Virgin, Valentine

Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.

The Way To Dawn

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

The Kindly Ones

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

J. C. Watts

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Italo Calvino

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

David Zucker

One thing I often get carried away with is piggyback rides.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one ...

Violence in the Arts

I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead o...

Tom Rath