Quotes about someone page 17
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Source: The Bronze Horseman
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock
Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.
“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”
Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”
Lois Lowry book A Summer to Die
Source: A Summer to Die
“So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go?”
Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: First Love
“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: Samsa in Love
Christopher Hitchens book The Missionary Position
Source: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Variant: When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
Ellen Cameron May, "Serling in Creative Mainstream" (profile/interview), Los Angeles Times (June 25, 1967), page C22-23.
Other
Context: I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls
Context: "Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
“I’d done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Source: Saint Anything
“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
“Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.”
Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist
Source: The Accidental Tourist
“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Source: Johnny Cash Quotes
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
"This explains Joss perfectly." at Whedonesque.com (15 February 2006)
“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”
Stephen King book Under the Dome
Source: Under the Dome
“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
