Top 100 Just One Person Quotes
#1. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#2. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.
Hollis Stacy
#3. I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if it's just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, it's easy to run into people you've worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.
Lizzy Caplan
#4. A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me, it's not about just one person. It's about the whole team. That's the way I look at acting. That's the way I look at everything I do.
Mekhi Phifer
#5. When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.
George Lucas
#6. The only thing I really want out of my career is to change the course of just one person's life for the better. If I can do that, then I know I'll be happy
B.L. Berry
#7. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
#8. I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.
Robert Greene
#9. All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.
Justin Cronin
#10. Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
Oprah Winfrey
#11. I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.
Dilshad Vadsaria
#12. If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
#13. My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
Lindsay Lohan
#14. No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.
Victor Robert Lee
#15. We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. Being an author isn't just about making money or hitting the Amazon Bestsellers list, it's about the positive impact you and your stories make in peoples lives. Even if it's just one person.
Shannon Eckrich
#18. If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.
Emo Philips
#19. No one is just one person, you, for example, are both cain and abel, And you, Oh, I am all women, and all their names are mine, said lilith,
Jose Saramago
#20. Remember, with writing, what you're looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'
Ray Bradbury
#21. Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.
David A. Bednar
#22. We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.
Adam Rich
#23. I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#24. To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
Pablo Casals
#25. I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
#26. I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
Pat Conroy
#27. If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
Daryl Hall
#28. To the world you may be just one person, but to the one person you may be the world. - Mother Theresa
Aleatha Romig
#29. Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.
Mike Singletary
#30. No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
Justin Kirk
#31. Sometimes that's all it takes. Just one person to turn everything on its head. Remind you of the person you were.
Samantha Towle
#32. I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.
Erica Jong
#33. Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.
Mary E. Pearson
#34. And I want to be able to stand in front of a room full of people and actually be able to say the thing I want to say," she told him.
"And I want to be able to stand in front of just one person and day the thing I want to say.
Jennifer E. Smith
#35. I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
Darren Fletcher
#36. A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
Carine Roitfeld
#37. Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything ... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Lydia Lunch
#38. Make your influence a good one.
Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.
Lindsey Stirling
#39. If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
Blake Mycoskie
#40. The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.
Czeslaw Milosz
#41. It's hard to make things right for everyone."
"But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.
Linwood Barclay
#42. He was just one person among billions crawling on the planet's surface, a speck of stardust in an infinite cosmos.
Michael Goorjian
#43. No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.
Caterina Fake
#44. We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.
Ralph Smart
#45. The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. Tawks
#46. Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.
Mick Ebeling
#47. I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
John Frankenheimer
#48. I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.
Steve Carell
#49. I've begun to wonder if that's all we really need. Just one person who knows us truly. One person who knows the darkness that lies within and believes in us anyway.
Michelle Zink
#50. You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months?
Alexander McCall Smith
#51. The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
Marianne Williamson
#52. You are not just one person, Candice. You're a whole tornado of a person.
Elle Casey
#53. I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.
Tony Fadell
#54. What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
Roald Dahl
#55. That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. Just one person. It really honestly just takes one positive person. One positive person can help you. And that can go a long, long way. - Alexis
Robert Uttaro
#57. If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.
Johnny Weir
#59. Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
Ray Conniff
#60. How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.
Jim Provenzano
#61. If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.
Mallory Ortberg
#62. You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
Paul Auster
#63. It's naive to think that anyone is just one person, that there's a real you. What is real? You can only exist in one moment, and then that moment is gone. And there's a new moment, a new you. And you can't even say you're the sum of all your parts, because you can never be all your parts at once.
Sherry Ashworth
#64. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?
Clare Boothe Luce
#66. Home's what you make it." Nin shrugged. "Could be a ship. Could be what you carry around on your back day after day. Could be family. Or maybe just one person you love more than any other. That's home." The
Traci Chee
#67. All I can say is that nothing that happens is down to just one person, or just one action. It was part of life. Yours, and hers, and your father's.
Anne Corlett
#68. I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.
Colum McCann
#69. If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
Sarah Dessen
#70. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
Andrew Luck
#71. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.
Tina Majorino
#72. A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.
Rebecca Goldstein
#73. You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
David Lagercrantz
#74. 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.
Abbi Glines
#75. Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.
David Anthony Durham
#76. If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.
Michael Kelly
#77. [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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#78. 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.
Scott Adams
#79. If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along, one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us - that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.
Billy Graham
#80. I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
Mary Oliver
#81. 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.
Cecily McMillan
#82. 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.
Yasmin Mogahed
#83. 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.
Beth Revis
#84. But is it that easy? Can she just decide not to be that person anymore - the one she hates? Can she really move on?
Kathryn Holmes
#85. Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.
Robert Knepper
#86. 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.
Bindi Irwin
#87. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
Donna Lynn Hope
#88. Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
Alison Gopnik
#89. 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.
Frederick Buechner
#90. Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
#91. A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too.
Amish Tripathi
#92. I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.
Alicia Keys
#93. 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.
Frank Warren
#94. How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.
Margo Lanagan
#95. Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
E.B. White
#96. 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.
A.M. Willard
#97. Daddy said that you were going to teach me a lot of new things," Anya smiled, holding on to her father's trousers. "But Mommy said you're just one more person to irritate her.
Latrivia S. Nelson
#98. It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.
Frank Iero
#99. Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
Andre Agassi
#100. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
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