Just One Quotes - Page 39

• I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

  Jennifer Niven

  Steps, One Step At A Time

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• I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.

  Emily Robison

  War, Thinking, Feelings

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• Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

  Lois Wyse

  Persons, Repeats, Absolutely Nothing

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  One Day, Eternity, Sync

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.43, Modern Library

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• Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

  Etty Hillesum

  God, Hands, Trying

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.640, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Without just one nest
  A bird can call the world home
  Life is your career

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Home, Careers

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

  Susan Sontag

  Unrequited Love, Past, Devotion

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me, it's not about just one person. It's about the whole team. That's the way I look at acting. That's the way I look at everything I do.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Selfish, Team, Horror Stories

  "Mekhi Phifer on Divergent, playing poker with Jeff Garlin, and dying on ER". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Stories, Flavor

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• Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Spring, Good Man, Kind

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• There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.

  Mary Webb

  Flower, Book, Garden

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• I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

  Lou Gerstner

  Games, Culture, Aspect

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

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• People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Thinking, People, Way

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• The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Prayer, Spring, Love You

  "Sheikh and Disciple". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 1983.

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• Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

  Zelda Popkin

  Inspiration, Requirements, Hours

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• Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Home, School

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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Roots, Evil

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.

  Lucy Calkins

  Writing, Advice, Together

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• New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  New York, Artist, Media

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Sweet, Teenage

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

  Sophia Bush

  People, Rude, Attention

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

  Lea Salonga

  People, Catholic, Able

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

  Nancy Hale

  Trying, Seems, One Thing

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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• In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

  Jennifer Stone

  Sex, Biblical, Views

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