Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Paul Begala

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Kathleen Wynne

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

Kenneth Oppel

One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.

Phil Hartman

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Geoffrey West

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.

Huey Long

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Chris Hondros

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

Alexander Karp

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

Wesley Clark

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Anita Hill

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

Veronica Webb

One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Lincoln Ellsworth

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Peter Hobson

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

Ted Lange

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

Dave Gibbons

One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.

Hank Haney

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Ferdinand Mount

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Susan Orlean

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

Ben Bass

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Allison Janney

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Margaret Cho

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Bernie Taupin

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Thomas Arnold

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Jerome Bruner

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Robert Byrd

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Ivo Andric

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Andre Carson

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

David Zayas

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.

Mary Lambert

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Zoe Cassavetes

People are going to say what they want to say.

Pete Rozelle

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Norman Finkelstein

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

Patricia Hewitt

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Alexei Navalny

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

Mark Shand

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

James Bovard

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

David McCullough

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

Tracy McGrady

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Weegee

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

Kim Harrison

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Anna Friel

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Lee Grant

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Irena Sendler

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.