One Thing Quotes

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme, Yes, absorb me.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.