He Or She Quotes

#1. In light of this, I say that the definition of a cyclist needs a qualifier, and that it should be: (1) a person who rides a bicycle even when he or she doesn't have to; (2) a person who values the act of riding a bicycle over the tools one needs in order to do it.

BikeSnobNYC

#2. Through her, the Ramayan reminds us that even a victim can be a winner if he or she refuses to surrender to the circumstance.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#3. Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Eli Broad

#4. Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

Neil Strauss

#5. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

Jack Germond

#6. I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

Walt Whitman

#7. The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

Gilbert Highet

#8. When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Frank Gohlke

#9. Nobody can really be convinced of something he or she doesn't need to believe in through some biological imperative.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. Satin Island, like all books, contains hundreds of borrowings, echoes, remixes and straight repetitions. To list them all would take up as much space as the text itself. The critical reader can entertain him- or herself tracking some of them down, if he or she is that way inclined.

Tom McCarthy

#11. What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

Clint Eastwood

#12. ou can tell a lot about a person based on the pages he or she journals on

David Levithan

#13. No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

David Foster Wallace

#14. Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Jeremy Griffith

#15. If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

John C. Maxwell

#16. Life is full of unanswerable questions including how to live and what to live for. It takes extreme courage to live honestly by a person's beliefs and never rest until a person achieves the type of life that he or she envisions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen ... A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting
only the deeply personal and familiar.

John Steinbeck

#18. It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Travis Bradberry

#19. Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Issa Rae

#20. A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

George Fernandes

#21. A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to ...

Bob Dylan

#22. I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

Viet D. Dinh

#23. love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.

Tillie Cole

#24. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.

Edward St. Aubyn

#25. Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

Benjamin E. Mays

#26. To love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love.

Henry Miller

#27. There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

Andy Stanley

#28. Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

Billy Graham

#29. A photographer is defined as much by what he or she decides not to photograph as by what is photographed.

Jack Dykinga

#30. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Alison Miller

#31. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

#33. An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Donald Cram

#34. It's only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved.

Brownell Landrum

#35. The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

Nathaniel Branden

#36. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Tom Peters

#37. Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

Catherynne M Valente

#38. A lover becomes a light when he or she enlightens world of someone.

Debasish Mridha

#39. As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Benjamin Disraeli

#40. The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Hanif Kureishi

#41. The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Patrick Dempsey

#42. The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#43. A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

Roger Rosenblatt

#44. Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Mary Ritter Beard

#45. Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.

Ruth Gruber

#46. My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

Matthew McConaughey

#47. Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

Charles Kimball

#48. If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#49. Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained the same and how he or she has changed over time.

Dan P. McAdams

#50. Yeah. He gets me. Well, except for the part where I'm totally fine with premarital sex and am also convinced that God, if he or she exists, is, too. Well,

Meg Cabot

#51. If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

Bill Nye

#52. Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for ... and rode all the way the way to shore.

Shaun Tomson

#53. The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Saul Bellow

#54. The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

Carl Rogers

#55. Green tea?"
"You can't be serious."
The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't."
"Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.

David Levithan

#56. I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find.

Craig Finn

#57. When you like someone ... it doesn't matter how feminine or masculine he or she is.

Aya Kanno

#58. Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

David Quammen

#59. A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

John Cena

#60. A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

Alberto Manguel

#61. Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

Henry Petroski

#62. Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dalai Lama

#63. How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual ... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.

Suzanna Hupp

#64. He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

Lee R. Raymond

#65. A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

Zig Ziglar

#66. Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

Henri Nouwen

#67. Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

Rebecca Walker

#68. A writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Nadine Gordimer

#69. As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#70. When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Stephen King

#71. There are Nerds, and then there are Nerdists. A Nerdist is, more specifically, an artful Nerd. He or she doesn't just consume, he or she creates and innovates.

Chris Hardwick

#72. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Jacques Derrida

#73. How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know?

Louise Doughty

#74. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Seth Godin

#75. The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

Richard J. Foster

#76. In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick.

Michel Faber

#77. Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

John Frankenheimer

#78. The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#79. When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.

Van K. Tharp

#80. In a family or other small group, altruism prevails, but the farther away a person gets from an individual, the less altruistic he or she behaves toward them.

Mary Pilon

#81. And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.

Marya Hornbacher

#82. Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

M. Scott Peck

#83. It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

Richard Schmid

#84. I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.

LZ Granderson

#85. The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

Ravi Zacharias

#86. So much for you to learn, Empress. Beware the inactivated card." One Arcana's powers lay dormant - until he or she killed another player. "Who is it?" "Don't ask, if you ever want to know.

Kresley Cole

#87. And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

Max Lucado

#88. If the person were to withhold something or reserve the possibility of deciding otherwise in the future, by this very fact he or she would not be giving totally.52

Pope John Paul II

#89. No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.

Dale Carnegie

#90. The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Tim Ferriss

#91. When you're on the street and, in love, you hand someone a sandwich because he or she has no food, even if you don't say a word, your actions are prophesying to the person the heart and mind of God - and that's demonstration of love.

Shawn Gabie

#92. The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

Jakob Nielsen

#93. When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

L. Ron Hubbard

#94. One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Fred Rogers

#95. The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

Pema Chodron

#96. Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

Lee Lozowick

#97. There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

Margaret Mahy

#98. In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Harvey Penick

#99. Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people," Salo explained. "It is in the relationship, and the one who is psychotic makes the bad condition visible. He or she 'wears the symptoms' and has the burden to carry them." (341)

Robert Whitaker

#100. When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in 'normal' French, as if the language they speak in francophone Canada is so barbarous that Parisians won't be able to understand

Stephen Clarke