One Thing Quotes - Page 28

• What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

  Claude Monet

  Men, Painting, Pity

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• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Change, Evil, Decision

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Europe, Important

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• Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

  Lope de Vega

  Today, Tomorrow, Can Do

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• One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

  Gray Davis

  Running, Two, Numbers

  "Should I stay or should I withdraw?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Artist

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• I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, People

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• I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Curves, Years, Planning

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• I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

  Margaret Spellings

  Mean, Achievement, Gaps

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.

  Edward Boches

  Children, Two, Parent

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• One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you've really got to make sure you're not burying anybody at a position.

  Bret Bielema

  Player, Thinking, Wisconsin

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• It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

  Adyashanti

  Flames, Hot, Burning

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• One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Water, Balls

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• I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.

  Arnold Palmer

  Morning, Cutting, Golf

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Famous Inspirational, Believe, Mind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.168, Cornell University Press

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• I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'

  David Letterman

  Sweaters, Talking, Years

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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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• The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

  Patsy Cline

  Country, Wanted

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• One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Land, Giving

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

  Jewel

  Would Be, World, Just One

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

  Barack Obama

  America, Errors, Names

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• If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Nature, Animal, Joy

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

  Jewel

  Book, Reading, Bored

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• There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

  Golda Meir

  Sympathy, Expression, People

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