Quotes of: The-one-thing Keyword

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Richard Francis Burton

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Finley Peter Dunne

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Nicolas Chamfort

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Christopher Morcom

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

James J. Corbett

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

Nat King Cole

If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

Life

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sw...

Jasper Jones

There are things that I love – when mankind works together – helps each other – learns from each other – teaches each other – cries for one another – laughs with one another – builds with one another – heals one another – entertains...

Nothing So Glorious

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Daniel Barenboim

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Marcus Samuelsson

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!

The Rings of Saturn

One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one -- or two -- do come to something.

Pegasus

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Jacqueline Leo

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

Irving Kristol

I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things come to you every day. It's a slow process, and when you have to pack it into a short period of time, which you do for television, the experience is not ...

Bonnie Bedelia

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have...

Jack Canfield

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wr...

Samuel R. Delany