Top 100 In Other Quotes
#1. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi
Eric Weiner
#2. In other words, stop judging yourself against shiny people. Avoid the shiny people. The shiny people are a lie.
Jenny Lawson
#3. There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.
Debbie Ford
#4. They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
Marjane Satrapi
#5. Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
Jerome Bruner
#6. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.
Michio Kaku
#7. (2) goes like this that the one part is up to this time goes bright and it's a day and in other it's night. Just thinking on this, it's not so simple... it's not the magic, everything has gone and can't be changed, just thinking on this everything is devastated...
Deyth Banger
#8. Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for - in other words, cheered on - by people who feel different.
Liza Minnelli
#9. Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
Benito Mussolini
#10. A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
#11. Feeling stupid is no fun. But being willing to be stupid - in other words, being willing to risk the emotional pain of making mistakes - is absolutely essential, because reaching, failing, and reaching again is the way your brain grows and forms new connections.
Daniel Coyle
#12. The only way to consciously deactivate a thought is to activate another. In other words, the only way to deliberately withdraw your attention from one thought is to give your attention to another.
Esther Hicks
#13. Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
Candace Bushnell
#14. In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.
Michael Keaton
#15. What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
Olivia Holt
#16. Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
Pedro Almodovar
#17. You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness - only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#18. I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
Elliott Erwitt
#19. In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
Harper Lee
#20. An Egyptian medical scroll dating back at least 1,500 years BCE recommended treating migraines by using an electric catfish. In other cultures, electric eels were wrapped around a migraineur's head to ease the pain.
Carolyn Bernstein
#21. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.
Peter Rollins
#22. The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
Dion Fortune
#23. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.
Natalie Goldberg
#24. I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.
Patricia Hill Collins
#25. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.
Charles Kimball
#26. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.
Umberto Eco
#27. The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
Alice Walker
#28. There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Bill Gates
#29. I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
Brady Anderson
#30. Don't understand? is, simply, work on the undesirable states of f(x). It is often easier to modify f(x) than to get better knowledge of x. (In other words, robustification rather than forecasting Black Swans.) Example: If I buy an insurance on
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#31. I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.
Jen Naumann
#32. Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new slang before it even hit the streets.
David Sedaris
#33. Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#34. The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
Zeno Of Citium
#35. The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
Viggo Mortensen
#37. I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance
#38. Traditional (Hawaiian Saying): A road goes down, up and level. In other words. life is like a road.
John Richard Stephens
#39. People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#40. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.
S.J. Scott
#41. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life
Meg Donohue
#42. I have so many things going on in my life that my mind is always in other places.
Josh Koscheck
#43. The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
#44. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.
Oscar Wilde
#45. In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs. This
J.D. Vance
#46. Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
Adora Svitak
#47. The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don't entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it's impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it.
Kristin Cashore
#48. You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#49. What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'
Michael Ignatieff
#50. Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the "slaves" of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe - in other words, like most of the population of Europe.
Howard Zinn
#51. Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
Ron Wyden
#53. The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself
Thea Astley
#55. Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
Raph Koster
#56. A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
Julia McNair Wright
#57. The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.
Hyeonseo Lee
#59. I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
Stephan Jenkins
#60. If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'
Akira Kurosawa
#61. I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.
Ronald Fisher
#62. Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was
except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.
Bob Fosse
#63. IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD
John Irving
#64. In other words, the square root of fuckall is fuckall.
Kresley Cole
#65. Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing.
Henry Hazlitt
#66. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
#67. Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.
Marlene Zuk
#68. The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#69. I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
Ruth Rendell
#70. Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
Daniel Lapin
#71. The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.
Mahela Jayawardene
#72. People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#73. The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#74. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.
Conan O'Brien
#75. Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another - sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself - while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.
Isaac Asimov
#76. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#77. It was that simple. God spoke to Carey about the needs of the lost in other lands. And Carey wished to respond. After all, was that not what the Bible told him to do?
Ross Paterson
#78. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
David Farland
#79. The amount of people I met that had heart problems surprised me in high altitude astronomy. I had not seen it in other fields. After a decade of working at high altitudes, I was also diagnosed with a heart problem.
Steven Magee
#80. As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
S. Jay Olshansky
#81. I think in other generations, the 50s, the 60s, people went into religion and they were really involved with religion. I found that religion doesn't answer certain unique questions people have about faith and belief.
James Van Praagh
#82. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#83. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?
Alan Watts
#84. In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.
Jimmy Fallon
#85. So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
Anthony Caro
#86. Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
Natalie Merchant
#87. I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.
Beth Orton
#88. some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you look at them from. and of course they happen in other people's lives, never in your own.
Mike McCormack
#89. Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.
Clive Owen
#90. That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?
Robert Jordan
#91. The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.
Lena Dunham
#92. I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
John Cazale
#93. It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.
Theodore Dalrymple
#94. I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.
Ray Charles
#95. I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.
Brigham Young
#96. In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Jack Nicholson
#97. We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods ... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
Terence McKenna
#98. But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.
Martin Feldstein
#99. During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
Stephen Kinzer
#100. She looked at him and saw that his nostrils were slightly flared. In other respects he seemed completely at ease, acknowledging cheerfully the greetings of the Casino functionaries.
Ian Fleming
