Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Eden Riegel

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

Kingsley Amis

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Rod Blagojevich

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

Helen Andelin

One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

Carrie Fisher

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Christopher Knight

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

Warren Stephens

One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

Rob Lowe

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

Rick Yancey

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

David Suzuki

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

Joshua Waitzkin

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Melanie Klein

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Dale Murphy

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Andy Rooney

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Mike DeWine

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Randall Jarrell

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Frank Rich

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Bryant H. McGill

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Terence Winter

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.

Lord Salisbury

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Thomas G. Stemberg

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

Salman Rushdie

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Kathryn Harrold

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

Suzanne Collins

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

Cal Thomas

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Andrew Fletcher

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Linda Chavez

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Georg Stanford Brown

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.

Lane Garrison

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

Nik Wallenda

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

Tina St. John

One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.

Ben Silbermann

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

Bob Hoskins

One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

Ella Baker

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Nick Hanauer

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

Hayden Schlossberg

One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it.

Glenn Howerton

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Nicholas D. Kristof

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

Michel Faber

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Peter Bogdanovich

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

Edward Lazear

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Tracy Letts

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Jason Katims

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

Ron Chernow

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Charles Brenton Huggins

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

James Lovelock

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

Sandra Cisneros

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

William Hull

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.