One Way Quotes - Page 19

• We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be ignored when it becomes self-evident that we cannot build stuff that way anymore.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Self, Law, Land

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your situation becomes more and more of a puzzle. Now, why is it like this, why are things like this and since writing is one way in which one can ask this questions and try to find these answers, it seems to me a very natural thing to do, especially as it meant stories which I always found moving, almost unbearably necessary.

  Chinua Achebe

  Growing Up, Moving, Writing

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• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

  Scott Adams

  Brain, Way, Tiny

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• If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Numbers, People

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Way, Be Good

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• I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Teaching, Way, Living My Life

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• It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

  Howard Nemerov

  Literature, May, Pages

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

  Harper Lee

  Country, Stupid, College

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fear, Hate, Anger

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.328, Penguin

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• It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

  Isaac Asimov

  Racism, Hatred, Way

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.71, Macmillan

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• She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Running, Tired

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

  E. M. Forster

  Way, Human Nature, Howards End

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

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• There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

  Rumi

  Breathing, Way, Infinity

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• We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future of medicine is going to be broadly genetic is a very real danger.

  John Dupre

  Real, Ideas, Medicine

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• You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

  Ben Hogan

  Moving, Balls, Way

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• You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

  Ben Hogan

  Eye, Fighting, Play

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• I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Crazy, Way, Disaster

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• One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

  Guy Finley

  Numbers, Answers, Personal Question

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• By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Years, Way, Online

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• Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

  Fred Armisen

  Funny Graduation, Hammers, Guarantees

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Order, Two

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• The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Supposing That, Trying, Mountain

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