Quotes about someone

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“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

“I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.”

“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”

“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”

“When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence.”

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

“Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)”

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

“Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.”

“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”

“If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.”

“Art begins… when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”

“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”

“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”

“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”

“You don't have to be 'adults'… but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.”

“Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”

“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”

“I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone, it was tangible… something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.”

“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”

“I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.”

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”

“The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.”

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

“….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

“if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi”

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“It’s very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don’t settle for less.”

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them”

“I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn’t sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities.”

“Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.”

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”

“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”

“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)”

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

“If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.”

“We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?”

“I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw”

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”

“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

“Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

“I'm not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

“Look on the bright side," said Simon. "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
Jace brightened. "It's always nice when someone volunteers to be the first up against the wall.”

“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”

“If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

“Vivian, I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient I've brought you someone else's."

"Rafe you jerk, this is a sheep's heart.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

“I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”