Top 100 Else's Quotes
#1. It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.
Tom Ford
#2. I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.
Amy Plum
#3. It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#4. One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
Edward M. Lerner
#5. I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
Kenny G
#6. Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. Yet I also believe that when you do unto others, blessings come to you as well. So if you don't have a friend, be a friend. If you are having a bad day, make someone else's day. If your feelings are hurt, heal those of another.
Nick Vujicic
#8. I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.
Joanna Bolouri
#9. I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.
Don DeLillo
#10. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#11. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#12. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
Lalita Tademy
#13. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
Fredrik Backman
#14. How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else's life hell.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
Jeffrey Tambor
#16. SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
Douglas Adams
#17. The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
Shane Claiborne
#18. Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,
she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
Honore De Balzac
#19. That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.
Mark Webber
#20. If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only ...
Ray Bradbury
#21. Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.
Richard Jeni
#22. Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
Sandra Cisneros
#23. Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?"
"Choosing."
Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face.
"I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.
Melissa Marr
#24. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.
Mary Stewart
#25. I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.
Will Smith
#26. Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.
Marlene Dietrich
#27. I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.
Ray Anderson
#28. Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
Jon Acuff
#29. I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.
Morgan Llywelyn
#30. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache
Clint Catalyst
#31. The simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybody's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties. Lord Ram was a genius!
Amish Tripathi
#32. I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.
Ruth Reichl
#33. It had been years before she could view anybody else's happiness without mourning the loss of her own.
Jojo Moyes
#35. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#36. My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
Hillary Clinton
#37. The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.
Elizabeth Taylor
#38. I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism on someone else, it just hurts relationships whereas grace and trusting someone else's heart is a really, really incredible and important part of any relationship.
Rebecca St. James
#39. It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anybody else's. You can't know what will happen until it happens. Or maybe it dawns on you the split second before, when you get a glimpse of your own fate.
Amanda Lindhout
#40. From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.
Tori Amos
#41. Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#42. I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia Sotomayor
#43. If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
Adam Carolla
#44. Don't worry," she said, seriously. "Most of the blood was someone else's." She
Neil Gaiman
#45. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't currently rocking someone else's world.
Kathryn Budig
#46. Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips
#47. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
Marya Hornbacher
#48. we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are
Sunday Adelaja
#49. There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#50. Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else's.
Connie Morella
#51. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
Milton Friedman
#52. As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
Martha Beck
#53. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.
Linda Alfiori
#54. I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.
Helen Reddy
#55. You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
Nick Hornby
#56. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at that point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat- borrow somebody else's life- their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own.
Douglas Coupland
#57. I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
Craig Ferguson
#58. I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.
Haruki Murakami
#59. When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
Gary Allan
#60. I was running away from dating for the sake of running because I had gotten all too used to being on my own and not having to deal with anyone else's crap, be it good crap or bad crap.
Stephanie Celeste Perkins
#61. We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
#62. There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures ... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.
John Loengard
#63. There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
Fairfield Porter
#64. There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
Kenny Chesney
#65. Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
Bennie Wallace
#66. There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
Woodrow Wilson
#67. I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
Breaux Greer
#68. All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.
Sean Covey
#69. Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours ... not somebody else's ... it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth ... yours and mine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.
Deepak Chopra
#71. For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
Chris Wedge
#72. When you engage with people, you build your own insight into what's being discussed. Someone else's understanding complements yours, and together you start to weave an informed interpretation. You tinker until you can move on.
Marcia Conner
#73. When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is.
Nathaniel Phillips
#74. True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.
John Bradshaw
#75. Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter.
Ellyn Bache
#76. No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For
Alan Dean Foster
#77. People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#78. I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
Dane Cook
#79. I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
Linda Blair
#80. Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
Sheryl Sandberg
#81. It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
Thomas More
#82. Focus on yourself
do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.
Lauren Weisberger
#83. A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe ... it's you!
Karrine Steffans
#84. Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
Hillary Clinton
#85. Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Malorie Blackman
#86. Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.
Cecelia Ahern
#87. As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
Daniel Radcliffe
#88. He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#89. You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them
Mark Batterson
#90. Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
Simon Travaglia
#91. We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
Robert Wyatt
#92. In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.
Carlos Mencia
#93. 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.
Annette Curtis Klause
#94. There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#95. You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's.
Charlie Sheen
#96. For every liability you have, you are somebody else's asset. If a home loan is a liability for you, it is an asset for your bank.
Learn to control your cash flow.
Manoj Arora
#97. Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
Daniel Goleman
#98. If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
Joseph Campbell
#99. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.
Elizabeth Bowen
#100. We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
Robert Breault
