Top 100 In Someone Quotes
#1. Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#2. For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
Marilyn Yalom
#3. State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.
Kay WalkingStick
#4. Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
Nate Berkus
#5. People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
Larry McMurtry
#6. To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
Dalai Lama
#7. Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.
Cassandra Clare
#8. Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?
Chan Khong
#9. It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business.
Adam Stanley
#10. Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.
Jim Butcher
#11. Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.
Ernie J Zelinski
#13. Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard
#14. My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Nigel Rees
#15. it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,
Eric Ries
#16. Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
Douglas Conant
#17. I came into this world covered in someone else's blood and screaming. I'm not afraid to leave it the same way.
Darynda Jones
#18. To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult
Madonna Ciccone
#19. I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.
Tim Curry
#20. Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
Caleb Carr
#21. There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone's house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.
John Waters
#22. We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo
#23. It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia
#24. The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.
Jonathan Sacks
#25. We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.
John Boyega
#26. Before you can walk a mile in someone else's shoes, You first have to put them on ...
Timothy W. Tron
#27. Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.
Francesca Lia Block
#28. We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
Kate DiCamillo
#29. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.
Evan Currie
#30. My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero.
Orhan Pamuk
#31. Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.
Joey Comeau
#32. But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.
Jason Mewes
#33. The mere presence of a guitar in someone's bedroom doesn't make them Slash.
Ed Yong
#34. You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
Shonda Rhimes
#35. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.
Chinelo Okparanta
#36. Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!
Avijeet Das
#38. You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else.
Colleen Hoover
#39. A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
Orhan Pamuk
#40. Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
#41. You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history
Lois P Frankel
#42. I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.
Masi Oka
#43. I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George Packer
#44. Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.
Hisaya Nakajo
#45. There is a certain feeling of comfort and safety that one gets by conforming and obeying. Believing that things are in someone else's hands, and having trust that someone else will make things right, is a way to avoid responsibility.
Larken Rose
#46. They're criminal, but I'm a villain in someone's untold story.
Rea Lidde
#47. There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone's heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#48. One person could make such a difference in someone's life. Either good or bad. With their actions and words, a single individual had the power to save or destroy another.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.
Paul Haggis
#50. I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else's hands. But, if you don't, how will you ever truly know a person?
Renee Ahdieh
#51. People do it all the time
assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful.
Jennifer Brown
#52. Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.
Terry Goodkind
#53. Paco!" she announces loudly. "Yeah, I'm talkin' to you," Elena says, pointing to Paco talking to a bunch of girls. "Next time you want to take a dump, do it in someone else's house.
Simone Elkeles
#54. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
John Irving
#55. A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Russell Hoban
#56. I don't know, I haven't read the handbook, but my guess is, bikers don't do royal weddings. More like, rowdy weddings that end in someone gettin' stuck with a knife.
Kristen Ashley
#57. It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.
Scott Berkun
#58. When you believe in someone, don't be in a rush to change your mind!
A.J. Harrison
#59. It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
Lupita Nyong'o
#60. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
#61. I'm a big girl. I can make my own decisions about my dance partners."
He raised his arms in defense. "All I'm saying is that the guy let you trip and fall. I worry about you dancing in someone else's arms.
Ada Adams
#62. I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else.
Tony Dungy
#63. Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn
#64. I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.
Hyrum A Yeakley
#65. You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban
#66. I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot what onlookers might think. I ached with nostalgia for a younger, more responsive me, who seemed to feel things more intensely.
Catherine Sanderson
#67. We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Roger Von Oech
#68. If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
Ashley Young
#69. I don't have a cherubic bone in my body."
"Maybe you've got your bone in someone else's cherubic body then?
Jane Washington
#70. I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.
Michael Pollan
#71. Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.
Fall Out Boy
#72. Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy smile it makes my heart rattle inside my chest. There's nothing better in this whole world than to be held in someone's loving stare. A stare they reserve for you.
Poppet
#73. The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
Nadia Boulanger
#74. As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."
Benjamin Stone
#75. The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere
to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
Joseph Campbell
#76. Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
Melody Beattie
#77. If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.
Mark Cuban
#78. It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.
Raph Koster
#79. If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. I project myself to love and devote my time and attention to someone without a reason, so at least I can give someone the feelings of being the most special person in someone's life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
Ben Carson
#82. The best organizations and the ones that survive economic tsunamis are those with emphatic cultures and managers who are able to step outside themselves and walk in someone else's shoes.
Dev Patnaik
#83. Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone.
And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him.
The shame is overwhelming.
Emma Forrest
#84. There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
Tullian Tchividjian
#85. Everything that humans have achieved until now, were once merely an imagination in someone's head.
Abhijit Naskar
#86. Don't put your life in someone's hands
They bound to steal it away
Don't hide your mistakes
'Cause they'll find you, burn you
Three Days Grace
#87. Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
Twyla Tharp
#88. To be a rainbow in someone's cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
Max Lucado
#90. A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden
#91. You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else's hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.
Carlos Wallace
#92. When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
John McEnroe
#93. All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.
Patty Duke
#94. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Steve Goodier
#95. A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
Irvin D. Yalom
#96. In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
Chris Guillebeau
#97. Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.
Ann Coulter
#98. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Sarah Dessen
#99. It was better to know what people were really like than put your trust in someone who just wanted to hurt you in the end.
Jennifer Estep
#100. People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.
Jamaica Kincaid
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