One Way Quotes - Page 24

• Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pace, Sugar, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.146, Faber & Faber

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• Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Talking

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.71, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Self Esteem, Hard Work

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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• I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

  Lu Xun

  Men, Way, Earth

  Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.73, Lu Xun

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• I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

  Albert Camus

  Done, Way, Wells

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

  Jack London

  Wall, Light, Way

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.61, Jack London

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• One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

  Saul Bellow

  Ideas, People, Mad

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

  Chris Wooding

  Taken, Forever, Way

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• It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

  Amy Tan

  Mean, Different, Way

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.205, Penguin

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• Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

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• As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

  John Green

  Moving, Sleep, Blow

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.53, A&C Black

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• I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

  D. J. MacHale

  Special, Four, Levers

  D.J. MacHale (2007). “The Lost City of Faar”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.

  William P. Young

  Caring, Position Of Power, Sick

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• Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.

  Slash

  Thinking, Years, Different

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• Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Opposites, Two Sides

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.626, Penguin

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• so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

  Charles Bukowski

  Letting Go, Way, Process

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• One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Wisdom, Perspective

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

  George MacDonald

  Way, Care, Grows

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.162, e-artnow

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• If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Law, Doe, Levels

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.21, Macmillan

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• But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

  Lewis Carroll

  Comfort, Wonderland, Lessons

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

  Maile Meloy

  Fool, Teeth, Grit

  Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books

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• There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Addresses, Way

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Data, Suffering, Tests

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• Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Song, Thinking

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.302, Delphi Classics

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