One S Quotes
384 One S quotes by 316 unique authors
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable…
— David Mamet
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
— Herman Melville
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
— Bernard Malamud
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The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a…
— Thomas Goodwin
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
— Andre Gide
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While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
— Unknown Author
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Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because…
— Peggy McIntosh
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
— Plato
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,…
— Plato
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Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and…
— Roald Dahl
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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes…
— Pablo Picasso
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To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In…
— L. Tom Perry
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Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we…
— Pope Francis
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The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is…
— Richard M. Weaver
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Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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Pondering a passage of scripture can be a key to unlock revelation and the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Scriptures can calm an…
— Richard G. Scott
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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
— Warren Buffett
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Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.
— Jerome Bruner
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One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
— Charles Stross
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.
— Henry Sidgwick
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The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through…
— Linda Ronstadt
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no…
— John Maynard Keynes
Who Wrote These One S Quotes
316 authors contributed a total of 384 One S Quotes, led by these top contributors: