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The One Thing Quotes (page 11)

Jeanette Winterson quote: "Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper..."
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Jeanette Winterson
I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they’re the burden and bane of this world. Tobias Wolff
Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind. Doug Coupland
None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble withhistory. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves. Peter Ackroyd
You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to. Jonathan Franzen
With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing for me, she only wanted me to be hers. She was willing to do everything in the world for me except the one thing I wanted: to leave me alone. W. Somerset Maugham
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Douglas Adams
But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image. Haruki Murakami
He thought he saw a Rattlesnake. That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was. The Middle of Next Week.'The one thing I regret,' he said,'Is that it cannot speak! Lewis Carroll
If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose, If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you, If you don't get drunk on my kiss, If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done. Let's not drag this on, Consider me gone... Reba McEntire
I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. Elizabeth Gilbert
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility. Estelle Morris
John Stuart Mill quote: "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot..."
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. Ryan Gosling

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