Top 100 Quotes About Only One Person
#1. 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
#2. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.
Mac Danzig
#3. 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
#4. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever.
Anne Perry
#14. One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed is like a rotten loaf of bread, which looks all right outside, but inside is mouldy, so that if anyone breaks it its rottenness appears. - Dorotheos
Dee Pennock
#15. In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan
a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.
Joanne Stepaniak
#16. Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm.
Hannah Arendt
#17. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#18. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris
#19. A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
Lisa Wingate
#20. I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
Pauline Kael
#21. 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
#22. We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person's heart.
Toni Sorenson
#23. The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Donella Meadows
#24. There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.
George W. Bush
#25. There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demand upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.
Muriel Barbery
#26. Some doctors say a person who has only had same-sex attractions is, like, a zero. A person who has only had opposite-sex attractions is, like, a ten. He says most people fall between one and nine.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#27. The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
Isaac Asimov
#28. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
Indu Muralidharan
#29. Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .
Philip Jose Farmer
#30. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.
Dave Eggers
#32. The only person you should try to be better than is the one you were yesterday
Unknown
#33. The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.
Michelle Casto
#34. A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it.
Anurag Shourie
#35. There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.
Andy Biersack
#36. I was the last person on the face of the Earth to help when it came to the opposite sex.
I'd only kissed one boy in my entire life.
And he'd been a demon.
So ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#38. It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#39. I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Yakov Smirnoff
#40. I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.
Diablo Cody
#41. Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.
Larry McMurtry
#42. Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.
Anjelica Huston
#43. It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
Christo
#44. 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
#45. He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
Mark Twain
#46. 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
#47. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#48. Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks.
Debra Dean
#49. A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.
Jan Guillou
#50. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person
William Golding
#51. The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow ... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara Kingsolver
#52. You say you want to get rid of the noise, but you and the noise go together. You have to be you without 'you' and all noise will stop. The real You is the formless witness within. The person, the noisy one, is only imagined. To recognize this is Freedom.
Mooji
#53. The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.
Sadegh M. Angha
#54. 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
#55. I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift
#56. The sage sees only the Self. The person sees lots of persons. One sees from wholeness, one sees from fragmentation. Both are you.
Mooji
#57. It's funny. I used to look up at the stars and feel so small and unimportant. But I've come to realize that the only thing that can ever make you feel alive and important is the one person who takes you for you.
Tillie Cole
#58. I can only be nice to one Person, today's not your day tomorrow doesn't look good either
Quinn Loftis
#59. Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
Alana Stewart
#61. I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.
Billy Porter
#62. Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
#63. I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.
Domo Genesis
#64. I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.
Herschel Walker
#65. Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#66. Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.
Harold S. Kushner
#67. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#68. The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.
George W. Bush
#69. There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.
Tim Campbell
#70. When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.
Johnny Hunt
#71. No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.
Brian K. Vaughan
#72. I'm a demon. I'm more than half-demon, and that means I can only love one person." He watched me from his pillow. "You. Only you
Tijan
#73. There's only one person in Cape Town who deals with finding the weird,' he says. 'You need to see Jackie Ronin.
Charlie Human
#74. When Everyone Are Doing Something Right And Only One Person Is Doing It Wrong , He Is Called Insane , And When Everyone Are Doing Something Wrong And Only One Person Is Doing it Right , He Is Still Called Insane !
I Am Insane In Your World And You Are Insane In Mine !
Bonnie
#75. One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.
Neil Strauss
#76. Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.
Patton Oswalt
#77. Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.
James Patterson
#78. The long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!
Tony Bishop
#79. Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.
John Bradshaw
#80. Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#81. One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest.
JohnA Passaro
#82. Do not look around at what everyone else is doing. No one is asking you to be someone else. But the world does need you to be you, because you are the only one who can do the job. Be the person God created you to be. He made you exactly right.
Ellyn Sanna
#83. 1 person will tell you that you can do it, 100 people will tell you that you can't, and 20 people will tell you that you can do it only with their help. One person is right.
Ryan Adam Smith
#84. A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
Laura Vazquez
#85. We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.
Marcel Proust
#86. When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.
Michael Morpurgo
#87. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.
Rudyard Kipling
#88. So, I say to you, young writers: You only need one person to believe in you, even if that person is yourself. And I say to you, old writers, and there's a hell of a lot of you in here,
Claire Contreras
#89. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Brian Houston
#90. A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#91. You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.
Lenny Bruce
#92. We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.
"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"
One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.
MacDonald Harris
#93. Everyone wants to feel like they were the one and only person that the other person could ever fall in love with.
Allison Williams
#94. Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
Steve Maraboli
#95. Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#96. I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
Mother Teresa
#97. Downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.
Charles Bukowski
#98. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you will ever have because you are the only person with whom you will spend every moment of your life. Treat yourself with kindness, courtesy, and respect. Cherish who you are!
Karlyle Tomms
#99. Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
Pope Benedict XVI
#100. I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.
Derek Clayton
