Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Geoff Mulgan

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Lee H. Hamilton

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Morris West

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Peer Steinbruck

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Ed Wood

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

Lady Randolph Churchill

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

Paul Parker

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Gabrielle Roy

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Nick Bantock

One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.

Les Paul

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Francis Collins

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Peter Mayle

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

Tim Armstrong

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Leroy Chiao

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

Zendaya

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

Carla Hall

One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.

Vint Cerf

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

Sabrina Bryan

One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.

Christina Hendricks

One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

Steve Brown

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Earl Monroe

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Lauren Cohan

One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac.

Gail Z. Martin

One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

Ricky Jay

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

Reid Hoffman

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Ehren Kruger

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

Louis Stokes

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

Zach Wamp

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

Nancy Horan

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

Bill Nelson

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Baz Luhrmann

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Gloria Gaynor

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Kathleen Troia McFarland

One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve.

Callie Khouri

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Hugh Howey

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

Thomas Woods

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

Henrik Pontoppidan

One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies.