Be Someone Who Quotes

#1. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

John Dewey

#2. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

Marianne Williamson

#3. someone simply puts his money without analysing anything, then he can be said to a squanderer who does not value his own money.

Chellamuthu Kuppusamy

#4. Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

Philip DeFranco

#5. I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.

Robert Pattinson

#6. I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

John Hawkes

#7. You needn't worry about my following you or looking for you Princess. I'm not in the business of keeping someone who doesn't want to be kept.

Lilly Wilde

#8. I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

Gabe Kaplan

#9. I could never be with someone who wasn't excited by rainstorms

David Levithan

#10. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!

Jeff Hutchins

#11. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Paula Heller Garland

#12. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

Yousuf Karsh

#13. It's scary how you can be haunted by someone who is still alive.

R. YS Perez

#14. It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

Isaac Asimov

#15. I wanted someone who let me be me, and because we fit so well, I could just let him be him.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#16. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.

Ratan Tata

#17. It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

Mary Renault

#18. It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Norman MacCaig

#19. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

Margaret Cho

#20. I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

Kelly Reilly

#21. I want to be friends with someone who's interested in more than my pussy."
"I'm interested in your mouth too.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#22. But it had another layer to it, because imitating crass people was kind of liberating - like pretending to be a child or a crazy person. It was something you could do only with someone you really trusted, someone who knew how capable and good you actually were.

Miranda July

#23. Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.

T.D. Jakes

#24. Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Ron Funches

#25. I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

Jordin Sparks

#26. On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

Kevin Systrom

#27. Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.

Julia A. Schumacher

#28. But I was also angry. I was angry with myself for giving my heart to someone who didn't even know me, let alone love me back. I was ashamed that I'd tried to be someone I wasn't just so I could feel wanted.

E.M. Abel

#29. There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions.

Edmond Manning

#30. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

#31. Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

Gary Zukav

#32. Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Tamara Keith

#33. But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

Eleanor Herman

#34. Anyone who might feel reluctant to surrender his will to the will of another should remember Jesus' words, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin.

A.W. Tozer

#35. I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

Ranbir Kapoor

#36. I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.

Tom Wolfe

#37. I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.

Veronica Roth

#38. It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

Jack Dee

#39. An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.

John McCarthy

#40. If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay.

Michael Cera

#41. A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Mike Krzyzewski

#42. a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time.

Robert Zimmermann

#43. Dawson!" Ash yelled from below. "What are you doing? Stop! Do something, Adam!"

Adam's laugh followed. "Someone needed to put Andrew in his place. I always figured it would be Daemon. Who knew.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#44. But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

Colin Firth

#45. I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Richard Pryor

#46. You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

#47. You may not have been who I picture myself with, but you're exactly what I need- someone I can let loose and be myself with.

Kendall Ryan

#48. If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#49. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.

Stephen Richards

#50. I saw his eyes close and figured he'd probably be asleep immediately. I felt irrationally envious of him - someone who could just drift off, someone whose thoughts didn't keep him up. Someone like I'd once been.

Anonymous

#51. People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.

Ray A. Davis

#52. I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

Brian Dunkleman

#53. To be with someone, to live with someone who you thought you loved and who loved you, only to have them leave you for faults that you believed were strengths, was disorienting to say the least.

Staci Hart

#54. I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Alexei Sayle

#55. I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

Robert Pattinson

#56. You don't realize how terrifying the world can be for someone like that, someone who would rather stay in a familiar hole than an unfamiliar mansion.

David Wong

#57. Someone said you can't trust happiness.' 'Who was that idiot?' I shrugged. 'Let yourself be happy, Neal.

Barbara Morgenroth

#58. The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

J.K. Rowling

#59. Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you'll learn to be patient with others.

Woodrow M. Kroll

#60. I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.

Erica Schroeder

#61. There are simple rules of engagement: You need to have your voice, but it has to be very intentional - be brief and to the point, with fresh ideas. Don't restate things someone else has said. Make eye contact with the person who has the floor.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#62. Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Thomas Szasz

#63. I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

Kym Whitley

#64. I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Laura Ziskin

#65. Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Michel Quoist

#66. If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

Jan Carlzon

#67. A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.

Ruth Reichl

#68. Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.

Charles Halford

#69. So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

C.J. Mahaney

#70. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.

Paul Bloom

#71. Allowing someone to be who they really are, on their terms, instead of expecting them to be who you wish they were - that's always a choice.

Sarah Fine

#72. You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Charlie Jane Anders

#73. You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

Iris Apfel

#74. I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Neil Gaiman

#75. Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

Caroline Knapp

#76. I want someone who is proud to be with me, someone who won't turn on me the moment others find out we're together.

Erin Gough

#77. I'm too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn't real.

Becky Albertalli

#78. A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

N. T. Wright

#79. Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of
they might be a ghost.

Andrew W.K.

#80. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.

Daniel Coleman

#81. Artist?' Thomas suggested. 'That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who makes something beautiful. Would that be a word?

Lois Lowry

#82. I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

Ravi Shankar

#83. It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.

Kate Madison

#84. The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

Nancy Bond

#85. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Neil Gaiman

#86. The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

Adam Rickitt

#87. I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

Yuvraj Singh

#88. When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

Ed Westwick

#89. I would rather be known as someone who tried and failed, than someone who never tried at all.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#90. I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

Jermain Defoe

#91. Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?

Tennessee Williams

#92. People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi

Ai Yazawa

#93. When I was no longer afraid to deal with my own troubles, I did not want to be in a relationship with someone who was still afraid to deal with theirs.

Amanda Andruzzi

#94. Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

John Le Carre

#95. Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Edward Said

#96. The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

Bono

#97. To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Octavio Paz

#98. I could never be with someone who didn't understand how important my family is to me. When

Jenny Han

#99. What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

#100. I don't want someone who's just with me until things get a little too difficult, or something better comes along, or marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be. I want the real thing-for better or worse, rich, poor, sickness, health, forever and ever, amen.

Lisa Wingate