One Way Quotes - Page 31

• Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Way, Praying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.349

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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Done, Way

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• As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Brother, Stupid, Giants

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

  Mark Zandi

  Thinking, Differences, Normal

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• A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Atheism, Way

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ghetto, Cities, Way

  "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

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• One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.416

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• There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

  Mike Royko

  Erosion, Roots, Way

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• One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Technology, Years, Meditation

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• Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

  Idries Shah

  Talking, Broken, Preparation

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.134, Octagon Press Ltd

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• At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Mean, Blood, Body

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Epidemics, Numbers

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Lying, Answers

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

  Barry Lopez

  Mean, Land, Way

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.526, Open Road Media

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• You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, People, Choices

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• If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Writing, Perfect

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

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• Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Law, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

  B. B. King

  Song, People, Way

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• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self, Creative, Way

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Grateful, Actors

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

  Ivan Reitman

  Character, Way, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

  Ned Beauman

  Book, Writing, Cat

  "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

  Colin Baker

  Mean, Laughing, Way

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