One Way Quotes - Page 23

• Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?

  Billie Letts

  Rain, Mean, Moon

  Billie Letts (2001). “Where the Heart Is”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Way, Inevitable

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• I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Sheep, Losing Control

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• I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Self, People

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.289, Anchor

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• There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

  Epictetus

  Mind, Way, Tranquility

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• You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Inspirational, Dark, Night

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• Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Escaping, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.

  William S. Burroughs

  Kids, Eye, Mirrors

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Acting, Way

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.274, Penguin

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• I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

  Herman Melville

  Views, Hands, Knowing

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Snow, Pockets, Way

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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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• never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Way, Never Trust

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• If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

  Ken Kesey

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.107, Hamilton Books

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• But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Mean, Light

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• I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

  Gregory Maguire

  Dust, Crow, Guests

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Loss, Stories, Way

  "Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds By Refusing To Please" by Jason Tanz, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Race, Political

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