In One Person Quotes

#1. Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19 - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#2. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime. - Author: Gregory Maguire

#3. Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another. - Author: Dario Argento

#4. To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held. - Author: Chica Umino

#5. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. - Author: Robert Mueller

#6. Ideas and their creators run the world ... one's place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person "freely" accepts and uses. - Author: Haki R. Madhubuti

#7. Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world. - Author: Frank Warren

#8. I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night. - Author: Lorde

#9. I am none if not a shadow, and I am all if not a person. I am true, I am real, I am humble, I am dark.

And I don't give one damn whether I'm going to go back in that place of hell. - Author: Max Sillitoe

#10. One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters. - Author: Jason Alexander

#11. Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then. - Author: Frederick Buechner

#12. There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those. - Author: Joshua Michael Stern

#13. You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time. - Author: Volkmar Sigusch

#14. Most of the time you can get away with launching a terrible product, or with not washing your hands, but one time in a thousand, you will kill a person, or a company. - Author: Megan McArdle

#15. In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language. - Author: William Golding

#16. If you are in a big city or on an online dating site, you are flooded with options. Seeing all these options, like the people in the job example, are we now comparing our potential partners not to other potential partners but rather to an idealized person whom no one could measure up to? - Author: Aziz Ansari

#17. A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence. - Author: Gopichand Lagadapati

#18. It's impossible, I think, to save everyone, but if we help even one person in our lifetime, then we succeeded. - Author: Chevy Stevens

#19. Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is. - Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#20. Most common thing in marriage is to see the man or the woman, or both, each in their own way, trying to destroy the third person that they form together, the one that resists, that wants to survive regardless, - Author: Jose Saramago

#21. Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him ... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that. - Author: Bindi Irwin

#22. I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. - Author: Caroline Kennedy

#23. In a relationship of any kind, if one person feels the other person isn't bringing anything to the table, he or she will begin to disrespect that person. - Author: Sherry Argov

#24. I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.
This ... this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from. - Author: Beth Revis

#25. There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth ... just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one. - Author: Yasmin Mogahed

#26. It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. - Author: Amor Towles

#27. It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view. - Author: Colin Wilson

#28. There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation. - Author: Andy Biersack

#29. If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible. - Author: Jim Rohn

#30. He liked a pretty face as much as the next guy, but what had always kept him coming back for more was humor, kindness, and warmth - which he hadn't yet found in one person. - Author: Jules Barnard

#31. What is seen by all on FB becomes what each person also sees in the mirror when he sees himself. The others' gaze, but also the others' values, opinions, and judgements become one's own. - Author: Nicos Hadjicostis

#32. In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world - Author: Margaret Mead

#33. When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn - Author: Claudia Mills

#34. I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself. - Author: Charlaine Harris

#35. Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time. - Author: William Wegman

#36. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#37. The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him. He can become whatever he desires. Our path (Akram Vignan) is a path in which a person can become such that there will be no one to reprimand him. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#38. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life. - Author: August Sander

#39. If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror. - Author: Paula Fox

#40. There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#41. Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all. - Author: Paula McLain

#42. Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse? - Author: Vladimir Nabokov

#43. Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#44. Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world. - Author: Heidi Baker

#45. Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#46. I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet. - Author: Siegfried Woldhek

#47. Today I realize that I'm not marrying the one I thought loved me, I'm just Morgan Lewis, the owner of a bakery, a tiny apartment in downtown Atlanta, and a 2012 Camry. Nothing special, just another person walking through town to start her day. - Author: A.M. Willard

#48. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression. - Author: Indu Muralidharan

#49. The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did. - Author: Isaac Asimov

#50. It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt. - Author: Doug Liman

#51. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#52. It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world. - Author: Mo Rocca

#53. Nah, he's a good person, and fun, too. The point is, he called saying that he was in trouble, and need our help." "No, Patrick, you're the one who needs help. - Author: Ryan Roy

#54. The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another. - Author: Albert Camus

#55. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#56. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. - Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

#57. No one had ever taught him - and he had never imagined the necessity of learning - how to betray the one person whom you truly cared for in life. The only person who genuinely loved you. How to break that person's heart, whether it be tomorrow, or five years or ten years in the future. - Author: Eloisa James

#58. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. - Author: Michel Foucault

#59. Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#60. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life. - Author: Anderson Cooper

#61. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life. - Author: Jim Rohn

#62. I was very aware that you were a girl, Ash. I was just scared because the one person in the world who knew every secret I'd ever had also happened to be the most beautiful girl I'd ever known. My feelings for you were scary as Hell. - Author: Abbi Glines

#63. Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person. - Author: Jeremy Corbyn

#64. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous. - Author: Arsene Wenger

#65. Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly. - Author: Matt Wallace

#66. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance. - Author: David Wilkerson

#67. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart. - Author: Anthony The Great

#68. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie. - Author: James Baldwin

#69. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick. - Author: Victor J. Banis

#70. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human. - Author: LZ Granderson

#71. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million. - Author: Katie McGarry

#72. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies. - Author: Jesse Petersen

#73. To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with their love for you, is one of the greatest joys in life. - Author: Ellen J. Barrier

#74. No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see. - Author: J. Michael Straczynski

#75. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them. - Author: Michelle Erickson

#76. is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever. - Author: Anne Perry

#77. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one. - Author: Cecily McMillan

#78. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak. - Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

#79. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person. - Author: Lois Wyse

#80. The Greatest challenge in one person's lifetime is the challenge within yourself. - Author: Harel R. Lawrence

#81. I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God. - Author: Robert H. Schuller

#82. Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm. - Author: Hannah Arendt

#83. Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one. - Author: John McWhorter

#84. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. - Author: Jerry Seinfeld

#85. In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan
a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life. - Author: Joanne Stepaniak

#86. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society. - Author: Tim Field

#87. Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter. - Author: Bob Dylan

#88. Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one - Author: Kate Walbert

#89. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. - Author: Hanif Kureishi

#90. Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places. - Author: Frances Mayes

#91. One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child. - Author: Rosemary M. Wixom

#92. Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering. - Author: Edward T. Welch

#93. That melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal. - Author: Marcel Proust

#94. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. - Author: Hanya Yanagihara

#95. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us. - Author: Jon Heder

#96. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. - Author: Alexander Von Humboldt

#97. In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way. - Author: Scott Adams

#98. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs. - Author: Gregg Braden

#99. Love doesn't look the same after you lose the person who made you see it in the first place...until that one day when you find someone else who can make you see it again. - Author: Lan LLP

#100. In mediumship, we cannot overlook the phenomenon of attunement. We attract Spirits that attune with us and to which we are also attracted. If it is true that each person gives according to what he or she has, then it is unquestionable that each one receives according to what he or she gives. - Author: Andre Luiz