Top 1200 One Thing After Another Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

It's one thing to have a lot of talent together. It's another to have everyone play at their highest level.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

The important thing is that when somebody isn't in top form, there is another ready to replace him.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

I've always been intrigued by why people believe one thing over another.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.