Top 100 Person One Quotes

#1. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

Walter Mosley

#2. If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Ann Oakley

#3. 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.

Hanif Kureishi

#4. 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.

Michelle Erickson

#5. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.

Ellen Ullman

#6. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

Mac Danzig

#7. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.

William Boyd

#8. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures

Hayao Miyazaki

#9. 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.

J. Michael Straczynski

#10. Of course, one person can be the world.

Ally Condie

#11. 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

#12. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Virginia Woolf

#13. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan

#14. 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.

Ellen J. Barrier

#15. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton

#16. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.

Jesse Petersen

#17. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

#18. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Austin Grossman

#19. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

#20. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Bernard Madoff

#21. You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.

Alexander McCall Smith

#22. One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.

Marcel Marceau

#23. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

Jeffrey Tucker

#24. 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.

Katie McGarry

#25. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Deepak Chopra

#26. 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.

LZ Granderson

#27. 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

#28. From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

Frederick Lenz

#29. 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.

Victor J. Banis

#30. 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.

James Baldwin

#31. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

#32. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

Gurney Williams

#33. How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?

Orna Ross

#34. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.

S.A. Jones

#35. 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.

Anthony The Great

#36. 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.

David Wilkerson

#37. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.

Gabriel Common

#38. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead

#39. Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Dick Francis

#40. Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly.

Matt Wallace

#41. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.

Archibald Marwizi

#42. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ...

John Stuart Mill

#44. One person of integrity can make a difference.

Elie Wiesel

#45. Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Jeremy Corbyn

#46. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

Fannie Flagg

#47. What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges

#48. She was the one person he'd hoped to avoid as much as possible when he'd taken his place as Sheriff of Maxville. It wasn't that he disliked her, that was the problem. Despite his better judgment and a glutton for punishment, he still cared too damn much for the woman.

Lia Davis

#49. I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.

Deb Caletti

#50. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn

#51. 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

#52. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

#53. If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

Garth Brooks

#54. 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

#55. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Jim Rohn

#56. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Chet Atkins

#57. 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.

Anderson Cooper

#58. Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...

Deborah Moggach

#59. One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.

Margo Kaufman

#60. 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

#61. I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.

David Rodigan

#62. 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

#63. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

#65. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

#66. 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.

Michel Foucault

#67. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#68. The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

Desmond Tutu

#69. 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.

Eloisa James

#70. [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

#71. Today, monogamy is one person at a time.

Esther Perel

#72. Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

Sherri Shepherd

#73. A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.

Garrison Keillor

#74. 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.

Dada Bhagwan

#75. The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Albert Camus

#76. 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.

Ryan Roy

#77. 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.

Mo Rocca

#78. 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.

Arsene Wenger

#79. 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.

Andre Luiz

#80. 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.

Lan LLP

#81. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Gregg Braden

#82. One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Morarji Desai

#83. I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

Tom Felton

#84. 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

#85. There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does

Natsuki Takaya

#86. Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.

Austin Carlile

#87. Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

Banana Yoshimoto

#88. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#89. 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.

Jon Heder

#90. The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

Robert Musil

#91. 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.

Hanya Yanagihara

#92. 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.

Marcel Proust

#93. One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Michel Foucault

#94. I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did." It was the true meaning of community.

Danielle Steel

#95. The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

#96. It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Gaston Bachelard

#97. When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

P.C. Cast

#98. I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman

#99. I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

J. August Richards

#100. The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's

Sebastian Junger

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