One Who Quotes

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame. — Brenda Lee

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you? — Scott Westerfeld

Only one man can see the truth, the man who carries a pure heart. — Harel R. Lawrence

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am. — Rachel McAdams

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat. — Kirstie Alley

...And you're the only one who knows. — Billy Joel

In a cab back in Jersey, I finally answered one of thirty-three of Kyle's text messages (he called forty-seven times, I shit you not. Who does that!) — L.D. Davis

She was tired of being the one who cried. — Rainbow Rowell

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. — Moby

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am. — Stephen Colbert

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards. — Felipe Esparza

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime. — Paul Broun

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. — Bertolt Brecht

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly. — Marilyn Monroe

His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the man who has had a cold bath when he might just as easily have had a hot one. — P.G. Wodehouse

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. — Charles Caleb Colton

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate. — George Crabbe

Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry — Paulo Coelho

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. — Roger Ballen

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. — William Hazlitt

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry

As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul. — Dada Bhagwan

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks. — George Vecsey

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand. — Gertrude Stein

A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out — Beta Metani'Marashi

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of. — Scott Turow

Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Caring for the one who worries about you is the best thing you can do to strengthen the relationship. — Mohith Agadi

The one who sings, prays twice. — Saint Augustine

Two years older than me, but he's [Dust] one of those guys who you known is an old soul the moment you meet him. — Katie McGarry

She is one of these women who always carries a home with her, wherever she is. — Lene Fogelberg

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. — Kristin Hannah

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body. — Baha'u'llah

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette

She hadn't learned to look for the difference yet between what one did and who one was. Hadn't even known there was a difference. — Julia Pierpont

She straightens her hair, puts on eyeliner, glosses her lips and takes one last look in the mirror, all for the boy who doesn't care. — Frank Ocean

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace

There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus. — Criss Jami

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. — Nelson Mandela

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this. — Will Self

The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one. — Robert Cheeke

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier. — Jaroslav Kalfar

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things. — Fergie

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself. — L. Frank Baum

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. — Melody Beattie

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer. — Israelmore Ayivor

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all! — Anatole France

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission. — Lindy Boggs

Don't look to anyone for your needs,
for the One who created you,
waters you. — Rumi

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness. — Javier Marias

Who says soul has only one colour? — Joss Stone

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham

You can't get attention of one who focused on himself. — Toba Beta

The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need. — Jenim Dibie

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. — Amit Kalantri

Remember? I'm the one who keeps you safe. I'm the one that would die for you and all that? why, want me to prove my loyalty? — Rachel Van Dyken

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. — D.H. Lawrence

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself. — Toni Sorenson

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings. — Tess Gerritsen

Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red. — Mary Hughes

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none. — Orson Scott Card

Death is the one friend who never fails any man. — Evangeline Walton

God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one. — John Wilmot

There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one. — Harper Lee

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. — Robert Downey Jr.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. — Desi Arnaz

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life. — Dick Dale

No one succeeds without effort ... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. — Ramana Maharshi

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality ... — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him. — Graham Greene

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us. — Richard Flanagan

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. — Plato

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. — Beatrice Webb

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one. — Peter Singer

People who don't know us can take one look at me and know I'm completely owned. — Abbi Glines

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... — Eliza Haywood

What I think, Val, is that the biggest mistake a woman can make is convincing herself that she is the one who will be different. — Julie James

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. — Jean De La Fontaine

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. — Geraldine Brooks

Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist. — Heinrich Boll

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind. — Dave Willis

A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out — Denis Waitley

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? — Nora Roberts

Backbiting is the attempt of one who is incapable of doing better himself. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies. — Dani Shapiro

She wanted to be a little girl again, the one who thought getting high meant being pushed on the swings and pain was falling off her bike — Amy Zhang