Top 560 One Thing Quotes

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there’s no more of that. When’s the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It’s not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.
Edward Ruscha
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Ron Reagan
There’s only one thing money won’t buy, and that is poverty.
Joe E. Lewis
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash – a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
Milton Friedman
I’m a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that’s good about video games is they can direct their own experience.
Todd Howard
I am a fairly mongrelized person – you know I’ve been a migrant my whole life, and it’s hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally – this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.
Mohsin Hamid
One thing I love to do when I’m working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run – not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
Abby Wambach
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
I could live without my phone. And one thing I’d love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the ’80s.
Millie Bobby Brown
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow
I don’t believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don’t fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.
Mouni Roy
One thing that has made us so successful is that we've

One thing that has made us so successful is that we’ve never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want – not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
Jack Dangermond
One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I’m still going to be rich.
Lewis Black
That’s one thing I don’t think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that’s exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?
Ariel Pink
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O’Rourke
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
Ridley Scott
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.
Tracy Morgan
One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it.
Madonna Ciccone
The one thing I’ve learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
John Stossel
The moment I understood this – that my Parkinson’s was the one thing I wasn’t going to change – I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.
Michael J. Fox
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don’t challenge today’s stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation’s experience of an even more important class – the kind in which they learn. And that’s one thing we simply can’t afford.
Alissa Quart
I don’t deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that’s one thing I am constantly working on – pain management.
James Belushi
Music isn’t selling like it used to, but the one thing you can’t steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
G-Eazy
The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it’s the centre of the action, so you can’t just do one thing.
Casemiro
The one thing I’m not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle – and winning.
Tom Reiss
Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.
Herbert A. Simon
I’ve had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.
Tippi Hedren
I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
Esther Williams
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that’s not useful, that’s superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
Grace Slick
I’m not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is… fight back.
B. J. Penn
Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I’d prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream.
Chris Eubank Sr.
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
Logic
If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that’s one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.
Steven Wilson
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It’s like a slippery slope – once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do the other side.’
Halle Berry
I love that I’m a character actress and get to do so many different and interesting roles. There’s really no reason that I can’t continue on forever, because I’ve never been typecast as one thing.
Kathryn Hahn
One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I’m having a bad day, she goes, ‘Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.’
Tyra Banks
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one’s perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don’t know.
John Hume
Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you wa

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen, Sr.
I couldn’t believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.
Jose Altuve
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That’s the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There’s always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
Arthur Hertzberg
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short
It’s one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
James Wolcott
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard Baruch
The biggest lesson that I’ve learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it’s head.
Santan Dave
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon
The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power – or the lack of power.
Aliko Dangote
It’s one thing to say, ‘I don’t like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,’ but the moment you threaten violence in return, you’ve taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
Salman Rushdie
Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
David Dinkins