One Way Quotes - Page 27

• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Yoke, Unrest

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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• Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hate, Hatred, Way

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

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• Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

  Lawrence Block

  Nuts, Different, Way

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• Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cat, Fighting, Thinking

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.79, Harlequin

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• Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

  Scott Lynch

  Winning, Teeth, Way

  Scott Lynch (2009). “Red Seas Under Red Skies: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Two”, p.441, Hachette UK

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• I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

  Cornell Woolrich

  Heart, Past, Numbness

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• Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead.

  Og Mandino

  Dream, Sorry, Self Esteem

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• Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldn’t just go on the Internet and tweet it out. There was only one way to do it. You had to go outside and scream at the top of your lungs, 'I ate waffles for breakfast!' That’s why so many people ended up in institutions. They seemed crazy, but when you think about it, they were just ahead of their time.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thanksgiving, Kings, Valentine

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

  Lauren Oliver

  Way, Chosen

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's...it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.

  Suzanne Collins

  Views, Katniss, The End Of The Day

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• We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. ”As long as we’re together,” she said. She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

  Rick Riordan

  Letting Go, Fall, Hands

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• You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.

  Kristin Hannah

  Good Day, Years, Missing

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• And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again

  Nicholas Sparks

  Way, Ends

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Regret, Way, Spirit

  Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Temptation of Your Touch”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

  Jerome Bruner

  Philosophy, Educational, Understanding

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.80, Nuvision Pubns

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• To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.

  Byron Katie

  Country, Stress, Mind

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• We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

  Raul Julia

  Thinking, Meditation, Way

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• Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.

  Drake

  Humble, Sunday, Hoe

  Song: Uptown, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Please Me, Goes On

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