Quotes about other
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“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home

Sex, Home, Baby, Personality

“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.”

Karen Traviss British science fiction author

Thinking

“We’re not searching for anything except people. We don’t need other worlds. We need mirrors.”

Stanisław Lem book Solaris

Source: Solaris

People, World, Search

“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Thinking

“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Travel, Question

“We can't know or say what other people do. have to think whatwant to do to get the situation where you want it to be.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

People, Thinking

“Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Game, Reading

“To touch him in ways he'd never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 3

Way, Personality

“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Oprah's commencement speech at Howard University (12 May 2007) http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0024-winfrey.htm

God, People, Way, Failure

“You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, World

“Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 4

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Men, Books

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window

Heart

“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

People

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

People, World, Sadness, Sad

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) American dramatist and screenwriter

People, Change, Forgetting, Relationship

“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline”

Raymond E. Feist (1945) Novelist

Variant: Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Source: Magician: Apprentice

Love, Friendship, Sea

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Fools

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

Barry Unsworth book Sacred Hunger

Source: Sacred Hunger

Way, Suffering

“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41

Way, Guy, Sense

“You are incredibly wise. (Kat)
Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

People, Housing

“A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed.

"There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People, Light, Time, Perfection

“You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

People

“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Life

“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Love, Hate

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Love

Love, Beauty

“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love, People, Understanding

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Personality

“You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'
'No, sir.'
'One or the other. Not both.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

'Precisely, sir.'
The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Women, Success

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Friendship, World, Christmas

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

Faith

“Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

Death, Evil

“There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal…”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Nature

“The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Way, History, Universe

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

Source: The Game of Kings

God, People

“politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Mathematics

“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

Life, Books, Parting

“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist

Heart

“Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: The Jerk Magnet

Guy, Girl

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Love, Problem

“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People

“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

God, Friendship

“It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.”

Jerzy Kosiński book The Painted Bird

Source: The Painted Bird

“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

Tracy Chevalier book Remarkable Creatures

Source: Remarkable Creatures

World

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

People

“Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

World, Dreams, Thinking

“That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Fools

“I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

People, Change

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

Grass, Water

“He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hunger

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

People, World, Thinking, Tear

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

People, Heart

“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”

David Clement-Davies book Fell

Source: Fell

Life, Secret, Fight

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Friendship

“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Children, Faith, Lovers, Light

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.”

Martin Heidegger book Being and Time

Stambaugh translation
Source: Being and Time (1927)

“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”

John Berger book Ways of Seeing

Source: Ways of Seeing

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Men

“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

People, Problem

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Way, Idea

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Time

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt

For Men

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

Section 10
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements

People, Business

“To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

People, Envy, Sea, Dead

“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Dreams

“Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

World, Dreams, Time

“The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

People

“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.”

Colson Whitehead book The Underground Railroad

Source: The Underground Railroad

“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”

Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Books, Understanding, Time, Reading

“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Age, Siblings

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

People, Thinking

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather
it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Source: John F. Kennedy 1917-63: Chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.”

Orson Scott Card book Rebekah

Source: Rebekah

People, Way, Understanding

“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.”

Howard Thurman book Jesus and the Disinherited

Source: Jesus and the Disinherited

Life

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

People, Way

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Suffering, Betrayal

“It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

People, Learning

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life, People, Game

“He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Men, Truth, Fools

“Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda)
Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Kiss, Time

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”

Hugh Lofting (1886–1947) British author, trained as a civil engineer

People, Forgetting

“We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Love

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

People, Personality, Madness

“The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of lie, by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl, Interrupted”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to come by, and the one in Boston has been stolen. The other two are self-contained paintings. The people in them are looking at each other -- the lady and her maid, the soldier and his sweetheart. Seeing them is peeking at them through a hole in a wall. And the wall is made of light -- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beauitful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.

Lie, Music, Girl, Light