Top 100 Quotes About One Person
#1. I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
Robert Hayden
#2. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.
Richard Hamming
#3. The formal relationship, enforced by the institution, is that one person's word means everything and the other's means almost nothing; one person can command the other to do just about anything, and refusal can result in total physical restraint.
Piper Kerman
#4. But I remain with Rennie because she too is stubborn, because love requires us to stubbornly imperil each other, to demand that which can't be given and to go on demanding it. Every romance is a war of philosophies; the stakes are the romance itself. And if one person wins, it's all over.
Robert Cohen
#5. Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that jack handle 'fore you hurt somebody.
John Steinbeck
#6. It is not asking much
one person
out of all the world.
Sonya Hartnett
#7. I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.
Andy Hertzfeld
#8. I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.
Jeanette Winterson
#9. In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
Richard Mottram
#10. Lobe has not an end nor a beging, it does have ups and downs, but there will come a time where it seems that time stops and revolves around one person who you fall head over heals for you find there is peace and tranquility in the world.
Elizabeth Price
#11. Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, "That would certainly make everything easier," even though I can't think of one person who'd qualify, except maybe Willie Nelson.
Chuck Klosterman
#12. True compassion does not stem from the pleasure of feeling close to one person or another, but from the conviction that other people are just like me and want not to suffer but to be happy, and from a commitment to help them overcome what causes them to suffer.
Dalai Lama XIV
#13. When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge
one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
Elie Wiesel
#15. What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
Roald Dahl
#16. If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
Laura Wasser
#17. People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.
John Mortimer
#18. Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
Erica Jong
#19. The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.
Lauren Oliver
#20. People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.
Lindsey Kelk
#21. In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.
Michelle Visage
#22. Safe place. Everybody had one person to be theirs. That one single person in the world that never asked for more than what was given, but always took what was too much to handle. The one person who made everything better, and made someone else better, too.
Bethany-Kris
#23. If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of ... it's sort of like a domino effect.
Emma Watson
#24. The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
Warsan Shire
#25. There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Mignon McLaughlin
#26. The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
Vince Staples
#27. My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.
Tom Lenk
#28. How did this man with the power to terrify me also become the one person who truly makes me feel safe?
Lilah Pace
#29. In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.
Daniel J. Levitin
#30. The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.
Charles Buxton
#31. He told me about his slow realization that when one person in a family was sick, the whole family was sick. In Jason's case, the sick person was his father, who was nice enough when he was sober, but mean as a snake when he was drunk.
Lauren Myracle
#32. ...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person.
Stylo Fantome
#33. You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not ... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.
Pedro Almodovar
#35. It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Samuel Richardson
#36. Gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people ... dining in a good home.
M.F.K. Fisher
#37. One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.
Danielle Pearl
#40. What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Steven Van Zandt
#41. Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.
Philippa Perry
#42. We were two tortured souls. Both in more ways than one person should ever have to experience.
But we found each other.
T.M. Frazier
#43. There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.
Francesca Zappia
#44. We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves.
Nikki Giovanni
#45. Every great legend begins with that one person who raises an angry fist to the sky and flips off the gods in defiance. Acheron
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.
Nhat Hanh
#47. I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.
Judy Greer
#48. That one person you are is you ... its hurts but try love maybe it will get you through
Sabrina Salas
#49. Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other?
Dexter Palmer
#50. We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
Suze Orman
#51. Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.
Sarah Polley
#52. Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell Berry
#53. You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.
Geoffrey Wood
#54. I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.
Grandmaster Flash
#55. To the world you may be but one person. But to one person you are the world.
Unknown
#56. One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
Bob Riley
#57. One person put it this way, 'If you want to get to know a Millennial, share a meal.' In other words, get to know them at an individual level.
David Kinnaman
#58. I think you're wonderful. You're the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it's incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I'm glad it's with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong.
Christina L. Barr
#59. A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
Pablo Picasso
#60. When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
Kevin Sessums
#61. You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.
Naomie Harris
#62. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
George H. W. Bush
#63. The Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
Lucretia Mott
#64. One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world ...
Kim Harrison
#65. Love isn't defined by what you deserve. It's about finding that one person you know you can't live without and never letting them go.-Pierce
Lisa De Jong
#66. Making love was a joining, a connection between one person and another. You receive something, and you also have to give
Haruki Murakami
#67. The balance between the paralysing hurt of losing the people you love and the absolute glorious revelation of finding the one person that makes you happier than you've ever been. Someone who makes you so happy that you stare into your future and finally look forward to it.
Beckie Stevenson
#68. Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
Teresa Of Avila
#69. It only takes one person to recognize the beautiful quality in another, buried beneath the burden of life, and soon it rises to the surface and becomes recognizable to the soul it belongs to.
Tara Dupuis
#71. We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.
Mark Zuckerberg
#72. Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.
Barbara Rose
#73. There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
Howard Dean
#74. The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning
my world is thinning
and it's all because
of one person I'm missing.
Sanober Khan
#75. Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.
S.A. Tawks
#76. You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much.
John Steinbeck
#77. I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#78. History is change happening one person at a time.
Matt Damon
#79. It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
Jean Webster
#80. We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
Blake Shelton
#81. When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Shana Alexander
#82. [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
Clay Shirky
#83. The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
Harriet Hanson Robinson
#84. I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.
Colin Trevorrow
#85. I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.
Ivana Trump
#86. When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
David Del Tredici
#87. I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#88. 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
#89. It was enough that I knew I was not alone, that, at the very least, standing here beside me was this one person, who, unbeknownst to me till now, had all along been journeying this same journey with me, only from the opposite direction.
Vaddey Ratner
#90. Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
Robin Gibb
#91. Why does a father have to protect his son?" I thought for a moment before answering. "Look," I said as I stroked his cheek, "the world we live in can sometimes be very tough. And it's only fair that everyone who's born into it should have at least one person who'll be there to protect him.
Etgar Keret
#92. What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other
Jodi Picoult
#93. One person's disability is another person's culture." As
Jodi Picoult
#94. Maybe there would be one person who'd still want to kiss me when I had a runny nose or would rub my shoulders after a long day of meetings.
Kiera Cass
#95. You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
Grete Waitz
#96. There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!
Carine Roitfeld
#97. The title is Ulysses'
'Is it about the Odyssey?'
'No, it's about how prosaic life is today.'
'And so?'
'That's all. It says that our heads are full of nonsense. That we are flesh, blood, and bone. That one person has the same value as another. That we want only to eat, drink, fuck.
Elena Ferrante
#98. Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
Tony Visconti
#99. Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.
Quentin Tarantino
#100. Loneliness is not a feeling caused by the lack of people around - it is a feeling caused by the lack of one person.
Low Kay Hwa
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