#just one

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#be happy #choose #day #dead #events

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #imagine #just #just one #multitude

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#clown #far #higher #higher plane #i

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#directors #either #just #just one #some

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#american families #away #bankruptcy #change #disaster

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#becomes #being #big #break #concentrating

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ever #exploring #god #i #interested

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #facts #get #going #judgements

Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#add #anyone #elvis #everything #great