"If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird."
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"I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there."
"If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse."
"Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests."
"The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare."
"I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to."
"I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about."
"One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience."
"... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences."
"It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it."
"A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another."
"There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!"
"You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only."
"I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky"
"There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth."
"There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain"
"The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another."
"One thing we can all control is effort"
"Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it."
"What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely."