Quotes on One Thing

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.