#just one

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

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

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

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blue #blues #bobby #bought #charles

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#give #give me #just #just one #little

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. ↗

— Robin Yount

#also #early #even #ever #frank

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote. ↗

— Vicky Hartzler

#could #down #election #handful #just

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#ever #guarantee #impose #just #just one

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#attained #beyond #failure #great people #greatest