`` Let's get one thing straight, you and me.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

`` There's only one thing to move him fast, and we have it right here in this very store ''.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

For one thing, the world that Beckett sees is already shattered.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

For one thing, Aristotle mentions that plays may corrupt the audience.

It was one thing to call men to the colors ; ;

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

There is one thing I know ; ;

He has gained only one thing -- he has exploded a 50-megaton bomb and he probably has rockets with sufficient thrust to lob it over the shorter intercontinental ranges.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

Wilkes was quite right about one thing.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

No matter how many registry rocks they came to on this journey, each one exerted its own appeal.

He found a jar of preserved tomatoes and one of eggs that they had meant to save.

But they met in one searing moment that gave them to one another instantly.

`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

The one of 1861 made clear that in making their government the people were acting through their states, whereas the Preamble of 1787-89 expressed, as clearly as language can, the opposite concept, that they were acting directly as citizens.

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

they are fields of force exerting a unique influence on the sensibilities and a unique relatedness to one another.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

No one walked in this country, least of all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the Bar B crew.

she directed all of her mental and physical energy toward achieving this one goal.

one with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood ''.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

He or his deputy or one of their seven assistants, all full colonels, mans the heart of the command post twenty-four hours a day.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

Faulkner, for one, appears to be safe from the accusing fingers of all assailants in this regard.

At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

In light of all this, one would require special reasons for saying that the paths of the heavenly bodies were other than circular.