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One Quotes by Andy Rooney
- Every one starts out being an atheist.
- I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
- Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with…
- I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
- I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
- I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
- Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
- We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each…
- Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
- New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
- Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
- Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
- No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
- Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where…
- The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
- Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one…
- The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell…
- I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did…
- If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
- If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
- Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot…
- Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of…
- Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that…
- Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they…
- One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle