Top 560 One Thing Quotes

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just… the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.

That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.

Often, if there’s something that I want to do, but somehow can’t get myself to do, it’s because I don’t have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence – I want to do something, but I don’t want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

One thing about Italians is you can’t let them in your head. They’re inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They’re very helpful, but it’s in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

I’ve always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true – the kids are our future.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

As soon as I finish one thing, there’s always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don’t have any intention of retiring from anything.

The one thing that really terrifies me is we’re going to get a signal from space that clears it all up: ‘OK, this is how the universe works, guys.’

One thing that sticks in my mind is when I was a kid, and I had just learned to read, I came across one of my older sister’s textbooks that explained compound pulley. I thought that was really neat, and I still do.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Take that one thing you don’t like about yourself and more often than not that’s the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it’s that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

I did makeup for a plus-size model a month after I officially quit acting. It was just fate. The photographer was like, ‘Have you ever thought of modeling?’ It may have been the one thing I never thought was possible for me.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn’t get anything right.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.

A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

You’ve never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The one thing I’m convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It’s clearly something he enjoys personally.

One thing I’ve learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.

I surf – that’s the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you’re working 15 hour days… all I want to do is get home to my baby.

It’s funny… you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood’s looks? That’s like the one thing… the line you are not to cross.

The one thing – apart from assumptions about German – that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of the language when in fact our job is not to put a lid on it.

A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

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.

One thing I’m proud to do like a girl is represent my country in the Olympics and at the highest level, at the highest platform that I can.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.

It’s one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in the dictionary.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Rock n’ roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the ‘roll’ and called it ‘rock,’ which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It’s just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it’s sort of become like professional wrestling.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

I think the one thing I have learned the most from all the veteran guys is kinda like not to dwell on a loss or a bad day.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing – you’re either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there’s a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we’re told that they’re not. We’re told they can only be one thing – like handsome and charming and that’s it. Nothing more.

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

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It’s the one thing I don’t want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he’s chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work’s another. But if it doesn’t work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?’

There’s one thing about baldness, it’s neat.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Even if you can be the world’s best at one thing, you’ll be the world’s worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.