Quotes about other

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“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”

“Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.”

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”

“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

“India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.”

“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

“Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.”

“As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.””

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”

“These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.”

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”

“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.”

“Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.”

“It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others…”

“He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.”

“How could you…? How?"
"Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead."
…"No," She managed.
"There is no other way.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”

“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two… But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”

“If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.”

“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”

“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”

“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.”

“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”

“That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”

“As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.”

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu
One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.”

“Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.”

“Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.”

“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”

“I should like friendship with you… and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”

“don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?”

“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”

“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

“When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.”

“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other… I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”

“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”

“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”

“It wasn’t was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn’t as though I’d even had a choice, not really.”

“Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine.

- Katniss”

“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

“Laughter between two is sometimes a closer act of love than any other.”

“Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.”

“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”

“I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max”

“If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?”

“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

“You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!”

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.”

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”

“The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.”

“We are the other of the other”

“Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.”

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

“A dreamgirl, on the other hand, won't kill herself to impress anyone.”

“If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.”

“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell”

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”

“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”

“We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”

“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”

“Piece of Heaven?"

"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.”

“Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”

“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”

“Magnus noticed Maryse and Robert, who did not have the best relationship and hardly ever spoke to each other, having a brief whispered consultation about what YouTube might be.”

“And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.”

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.”