One Reason Quotes
331 One Reason quotes by 287 unique authors
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I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason…
— Terry Eagleton
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When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no…
— Joe Montana
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely…
— Dennis Prager
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people…
— Tony Robbins
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One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
— Jessica Savitch
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One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
— Richard Stallman
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
— Patrick Stewart
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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah,…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
— Alex Tabarrok
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I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS.…
— Montel Williams
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One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and…
— Julian Baggini
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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be…
— Paulo Coelho
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But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
— Daniel Handler
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
— Ernest Hemingway
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One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that…
— Anne Fadiman
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On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy…
— Joel Salatin
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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.…
— Anne Lamott
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The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or…
— David Sedaris
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One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one…
— Anne Lamott
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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