Quotes about someone

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“Have you ever loved someone so much you'd give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?
When they know they're your heart and you know you are their armor
And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm her”

“Invest for the future and do not lose focus. In life you should know what you want then it will not be easy for someone to shift your focus.”

“It is a private matter [sexuality], but if there are opportunities to say something . . . I wonder if, if it would be beneficial to someone else, that responsibility is on you. It’s complicated.”

“If I’m playing someone who’s smart, suddenly every character I’ve played is smart. If I’m playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it’s that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.”

“Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.”

“If someone’s face lacks a smile, offer them yours.”

“There’s no reason someone needs a weapon of war with 100 rounds, 100 bullets, that can be fired from that weapon. Nobody needs that, nobody needs that.”

“Finehouse relaxed in his own seat. They had all certainly failed.
But maybe sometimes, he thought, it’s a good thing, on the whole, to have closed a knife that someone else had opened.”

“It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation — namely a theatre of war.”

“It’s on all of us to stand up, to speak out when you see someone being abused. This is an organization that’s defined American — excuse me, defeated American enemies on land, sea, and air, and been defined by the way we treat others.”

“Forty million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
Those of us who make a mark use someone else's blood.
Our western stain won't wash away; it won't vanish in the flood.”

“We should never give up whatever happens because there is someone real stronger than every political power, and that is the strength of the risen Lord,”

“I have a problem in living which century I live. When I read those manuscripts, I'm taken away there. Sometimes I'm totally taken with them, with the monks and the ancient libraries and the ancient monasteries and then, when someone passes by me in their office and speaks English, I say, "What?" But then I realize I am in an English-speaking world.”

“I am against the idea when we, so to say, throw someone behing the bars, which is the place where they would hide and flee from responsibility. We will surely find them, but they first have to return public money.”

“There is no idea so obscure that someone could not come to regard it as self-evident.”

“Truth is the only foundation of honour, and the surest source of a man's influence with his fellow-men. When you come across someone of whom those who know him say "so-and-so told me such and such a thing, so it must be true" you are dealing, believe me, with a man to be reckoned with. But there are other aspects of Truth not quite so obvious as those with which I have been dealing. We have been thinking about Truth as between ourselves and others. There is also, and just as important, the matter of Truth within ourselves.”

“Happiness simply is someone who truly remains beside you whether you succeed or fail.”

“Many people have decided on a subconscious level that someone only loves them if they support their dysfunction.”

“Someone tried to tell me the other day that the only habitable place in America is California. But I just don’t understand how you could spend your life restricted to summer outfits.”

“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”

“When your body decides to give itself to someone, your mind has already decided so.”

“My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe — to see you, and to give a fuck — you've already blown it.”

“I wish someone would just start Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. How 'bout that? You can have your hair gel, you can have your lighter, you can have a gun, how bout that? You can show up at the gate five minutes before the plane leaves, and pay in cash, like in the good ol' 1980s.”

“i miss the company of someone utterly loyal”

“If we show or tell someone a truth about ourselves, it will cause them to become more clear about their truth. We have to develop the capacity to make room for both truths.”

“With the right person, you will experience someone who is able not only to accept, but also to love the truth of you and meet your needs because it brings them pleasure to do so.”

“Listen, if stars are still lit it means
there is someone who needs them,
It means someone wants to love.
Without sacredness in the emptiness
of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower,
no star is ever lost,
the long rains will continue to fall.”

“Currently, what is expected is that a person does not get emotionally aroused or dysregulated, is not emotionally phased or affected by anything someone else does or does not do, does not blame anyone for what they do or don’t do that causes emotional harm and especially does not defend themselves from emotional harm. What is glorified in society is emotional neutrality/numbness… Not having emotions.”

“In life, the greatest treasure is having someone by your side who takes care of you.”

“Each of us is someone's forbidden sin. It would just be enough to meet up.”

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

“Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

“" You'll never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You'll always be criticized by someone doing less. " Remember that.”

“Someone's life, you make happy by telling them sincerely "I love you", "I miss you", dedicating attention to them and transmitting to them the joy that you feel everyday… for their existence.”

“Engr. Abah Sule Motivations 1. Where is your own design? 2. That picture you saw today was designed by a fellow. 3. Leave the world and live your life. 4. You're in the moment enjoying the beautification of someone generation, put your moment now to hard work. GW”

“Love should never demand that someone change against their will. The sincerity of love should come from an awareness of the noble values of sacrifice and hope to create harmony and happiness together.”

“Losing someone we love is perhaps the deepest sorrow. But if we are able to see it with awareness and belief, that it happened because of the will of the universe, then slowly the pain will be healed.”

“If you love someone, then set them free. Don't shackle your loved one to your will. If you want to see them happy, let them do what they want. Because we cannot bind the hearts and minds of others. Like birds, only freedom and independence will make humans happy.”

“Is it foolishness for someone to make himself a light when he is surrounded by darkness and misguidance?”

“More than all the thoughts and feelings I have written down. I don't pretend to be a poet. I feel happy enough when someone is willing to read what I have written.”

“Love should grow for its own happiness. But in reality, it is very difficult for love to grow alone. Love always needs someone else.”

“Only a fool loves someone because of his looks, or his beauty, or his wealth, simply because he places happiness in a superficial understanding of human thoughts and feelings that is ultimately misleading.”

“The worst thing you could ever do to someone from a position of authority is to turn them against themselves. The worst thing you could do is to make them believe that it is wrong to feel how they feel and so something must be wrong with them. It is not malice that makes 'therapists' do this. It is ignorance. But it is ignorance that must end. And I will dedicate myself to ending that ignorance for as long as I draw breath.”

“When you negate the negative that someone thinks or feels with the positive, you are denying them the authentic support they need to deal with what they are facing.”

“Before forgiving someone, remember that he was aware of doing what he did. And he chose to do it.”

“It's difficult, very difficult to find someone who knows how to love. Someone who knows how to listen to the beating of his heart.”

“When, after listening the truth, someone gets angry and offended, it means that they were lying and and that he was conscious of it.”

“Your process is your struggle, success or failure is your choice. You can't put it on someone else's shoulders.”

“In life, take great care of the person by your side, there is always someone waiting for your mistake to have them.”

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”