Just One Quotes - Page 30

• If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Want, Kingdoms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 269, 1895.

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• I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

  Rebecca West

  Able, Wonderful, Knows

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• As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.

  George Lucas

  Country, Thinking, People

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons". Interview with Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Trying, Done, Might

  "Skyward: Man's Mastery of the Air as Shown by the Brilliant Flights of America's Leading Air Explorer. His Life, His Thrilling Adventures, His North Pole and Trans-Atlantic Flights, Together with His Plans for Conquering the Antarctic by Air". Book by Richard E. Byrd and William A. Moffett, 1928.

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• Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

  David Luiz

  Painting, Infinite, Possibility

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• If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

  Ben Goldacre

  Years, Use, Trials

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.

  Ned Overend

  Feelings, Technique, Machines

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• If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

  Kate Reardon

  Skills, Focus, Make You Happy

  "Tatler Editor Kate Reardon defends speech to school girls on politeness and good grades" by Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. July 10, 2014.

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• Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Art, Philosophy, Blow

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.73, Tuttle Publishing

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• The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.

  Gary Oldman

  Girl, Two, Years

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• Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

  Mary Martin

  Mother, Angel, Daddy

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Ordinary, Different

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Girlfriend, Opportunity, Guy

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• In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

  Ben Harper

  Blessed, Want, Worst

  Song: One Road to Freedom, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Past, Years, Nurse

  "Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart Split" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 06, 2014.

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• A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Doe, Problem

  "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  People, Solitude, Tea

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• I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.

  Arnulf Rainer

  White, Relax, Tiny

  Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail

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• In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays, people don't want just one dish; they want to order lots of things and they want to do it in fun places, places that give them an experience. The experience that a restaurant needs to offer is no longer just based around the food.

  Ferran Adria

  Fun, Order, Years

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• That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

  Frederik Pohl

  Life, Diploma, Graduates

  "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, 1978.

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Olympics

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• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Games, Perfect, Get Better

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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