One Thing After Another Quotes:

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: "The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay". Book by Jean Gould, p. 198, 1969.

topic: One Thing, One Thing After Another

Life is just one damned thing after another.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Life, Success, Justice, One Thing After Another, Damn Things

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Friendship, Love You, Love Is, One Thing After Another

History is one damn thing after another.

- H. A. L. Fisher

topic: Cycle Of Life, One Thing After Another, Damn Things

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

topic: Funny, Life, Existence, Cycle Of Life, One Thing After Another

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

- John Dustin Archbold

topic: Gentleman, Economics, Wells, One Thing After Another, Damn Things

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.248, MIT Press

topic: Eye, And Love, World, One Thing After Another

History's just one darn thing after another.

- Henry Ford

topic: One Thing After Another

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

- Horace

source: Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

topic: Time, Years, Plunder, One Thing After Another

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

- Richard Carlson

source: Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion

topic: Life Is, Process, One Thing After Another

It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

- Dan Wells

topic: Running, Car, Use, One Thing After Another, Computer Systems

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Fun, Plot, Favors, Connoisseur, One Thing After Another

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Running, War, Appreciate, One Thing After Another

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

- Ned Beauman

source: "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

topic: Old Things, Chance, Increase, One Thing After Another

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

- Michael Keaton

topic: Fun, Thinking, Brain, One Thing After Another, Synapses