One Thing Quotes - Page 35

• Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Different, Way, Audience

  "Sunday Conversation: Igudesman & Joo". Interview with Irene Lacher, articles.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

  Horace

  Frugality, Avarice

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• Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loneliness, Solitude

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• It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

  Quintilian

  Hands, Trying, Easier

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Feelings, Delight, Agonizing

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• To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Grieving, Sin, Repentance

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Superstitions, Belief

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.507, Delphi Classics

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• There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.146

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• The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

  May Sarton

  People, Naked, Would Be

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
  [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

  Juvenal

  Nature

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• A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

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• children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Regret, Anticipate

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

  Gail Sheehy

  Long, Criminals, Lines

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

  Germaine Greer

  Passion, Love Life, People

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• You look for one thing and you find another.

  Muriel Spark

  Looks

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds
  Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart
  Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be.
  Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them,
  Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven.
  All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.

  Philip James Bailey

  Peace, Pain, Kindness

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• God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Great Men, Gods Will

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1865). “Precious Thoughts”, p.101

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• Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Memories, Law, Longing

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• There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Party, Moving

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• Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

  Barbara Holland

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

  Nancy Mitford

  Travel, Tourists, Yards

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Stress, Trouble, Crisis

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• Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

  Fay Weldon

  Desire, Prudence

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

  Ruth Benedict

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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