Quotes about someone

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“Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron”

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

“Brian Andreas Promise #1:
Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.”

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”

“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”

“Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent”

“I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.”

“I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.”

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

“Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.”

“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”

“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”

“Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

“Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."”

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”

“She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.”

“So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go?”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”

“Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”

“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”

“She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”

“and sometimes I sit
down at my typewriter
and I think
not of someone
cause there isn't anyone
to think
about and i wonder
is it worth it”

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

“Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

“… the worst aspect of our time is prejudice… In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

“Coloured people don't like. Burn it. White people don't feel good about. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”

“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”

“It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron”

“I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.”

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

“I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.

Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!”

“Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have”

“I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.”

“Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.”

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”

“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.”

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous…”

“Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.”

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

“Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.”

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.”

“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”

“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”

“In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.”

“Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.”

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”

“All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.”

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”

“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”

“… from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.”

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.”

“My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.”

“She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.”

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”

“Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex.
It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.”

“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.”

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”

“When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle”