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The One Thing Quotes (page 9)

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen Paulo Coelho
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. Oprah Winfrey
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the US or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness is to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards... Edward Said
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queuejumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That... Nick Hornby
Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem Suzanne Collins
It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,” Walter said. “People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don’t have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can’t afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. 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
Louis L'Amour quote: "But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was..."
But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny Louis L'Amour
Lao Tzu quote: "Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of..."
Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world. Lao Tzu
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money. P. G. Wodehouse
Jeanette Winterson quote: "It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness,..."
It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. Jeanette Winterson
Just curious. Like James and Victoria had been curious in the beginning? The thought of Victoria made me tremble, thought the one thing they seemed certain of was that it had not been her. Not this time. She would stick to her obsessed pattern. This was just someone else, a stranger. Stephenie Meyer
We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence. Robert Kiyosaki
Cormac McCarthy quote: "It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing."
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. Cormac McCarthy
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. Annie Dillard
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. Ernest Hemingway

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