Just One Quotes - Page 16

• don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

  Irvine Welsh

  Jesus, Obsession, Replaced

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firefly, Night, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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• We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Life Changing, Book, Giving

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three, 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.194, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Pneumonia, Making Love

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Party, Mean

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

  Dan Chaon

  Sorry, Thinking, Two

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Await Your Reply: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

  Slash

  Vices, Different, Pace

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• You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I’d never write it that way now.” He patted his lab coat pockets. “Red pen—does anyone have one?” Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn’t say I was tempted, but I kept her under control. “Since when does drool make you powerful?

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Hate, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, Humanity

  Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

  Mira Grant

  Life, Lying, Thinking

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• By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

  Glenn Beck

  Men, Four, Way

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• You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

  David Nicholls

  Self Confidence, Giving, Would Be

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Moon, Long

  Stephenie Meyer (2013). “New Moon: The Graphic Novel”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Relationship, Unique

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• Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.

  Deb Caletti

  Cutting, Thinking, Glasses

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.

  Chelsea Handler

  Girl, Mean, Animal

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• After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Cities, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

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• Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, People, Risk

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.303, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Journey, Clouds, Wind

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.217, MIRA

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• One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Summer, Home, Sleep

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• I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Ninety Nine, Cake, Two

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• For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

  Lev Grossman

  Inspirational, Real, Character

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.264, Penguin

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• If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

  Justin Bieber

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

  "First Step 2 Forever: My Story". Book by Justin Bieber (p. 177), 2010.

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