One Thing Quotes

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.