Ones Quotes - page 5

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. (Willa Cather)
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade. View quote
Donna Haraway
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
There are good marriages, but no delicious ones. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. View quote
Tom Stoppard
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to. View quote
Henry Rollins
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. (Johnny Depp)
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. View quote
Hart Crane
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. View quote
John Steinbeck
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. View quote
Salman Rushdie
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. View quote
Linus Pauling
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. View quote
Linus Pauling
The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid. (Norman Reedus)
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. View quote
Jesse Owens
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. View quote
David Deutsch
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes