Top 100 Quotes About To Know Someone
#1. I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.
Drew Barrymore
#2. I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
Kevin Costner
#3. Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.
Ben Horowitz
#4. My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'
Christian Camargo
#5. You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Matt Mullenweg
#6. Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
Alain De Botton
#7. She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart.
Adam Johnson
#8. The best way to know someone was to look at their library.
Eva Leigh
#9. It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.
Lionel Shriver
#10. As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.
Mary Higgins Clark
#11. To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.
Nnedi Okorafor
#12. To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he'd ever thought it would.
Julianna Baggott
#13. Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.
Ryan Gosling
#14. And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.
Wayne Elise
#15. When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor Swift
#16. It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
Anne Hathaway
#17. Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
Uzoma Nnadi
#18. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
Plato
#20. What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
Diane Setterfield
#21. Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
Shannon Hale
#22. Getting to know someone is like putting a never-ending puzzle together. We fit the smallest pieces first and we get to know ourselves better in the process.
Iain Reid
#23. Echoes can't read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.
Dew Pellucid
#24. I explore the full boxes, mostly brimming with battered, dog-eared, highlighted books. The pages are worn, well-read, and I skim through them. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they loved.
Michelle Hodkin
#25. The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.
Neal Stephenson
#26. I guess that's the problem when you really get to know someone. You learn all their triggers and emotional buttons, and unfortunately, in times of war, you press them.
Samantha Young
#27. You don't need to talk to get to know someone, you just need to listen,
Melissa Haag
#28. Someone you haven't even met yet is wondering what it'd be like to know someone like you.
Iain Thomas
#29. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they love.
Michelle Hodkin
#30. It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.
Cory Monteith
#31. I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#32. I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.
Condoleezza Rice
#33. I had this client I'll call Samuel. Not his real name. I saw him steadily for twenty years, usually twice a month. Over twenty years you really get to know someone.
Annie Sprinkle
#35. I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
Kevin Durant
#36. Is it dangerous to want so much to know someone without first knowing yourself?
Christina Lauren
#37. Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers
Mary Tyler Moore
#38. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
Diane Setterfield
#39. You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other.
David Mitchell
#40. You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
Bette Davis
#41. But how nice it is that one can come to know someone just through correspondence, and become really passionate friends.
Julia Child
#42. You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .
Ridley Scott
#43. When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
Jo Brand
#44. You can read a lot about a person by their features and what they do with them. But, getting to know someone, who they really are, takes time, he said.
Tarryn Fisher
#45. How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him?
Angelos Michalopoulos
#47. No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.
Avril Lavigne
#48. This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.
John Eldredge
#49. In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.
Jodi Picoult
#50. If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
Jodi Picoult
#51. But that's the thing about judgment, if you give your initial opinion of someone too much weight and accept it as fact before really taking the time to really get to know someone, you risk missing out on a lot.
Hannah Hart
#52. I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
Hill Harper
#53. No, he wasn't like them at all. And even though my experience with the opposite sex was pitifully non-existent, this was someone I wanted to know. Someone I needed to know. Someone I needed to have know me.
Penelope King
#54. If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.
Amy Chan
#55. I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?
Nancy Richler
#56. To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge - we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#57. In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinley
#58. Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.
Jill Conner Browne
#59. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Helen Gurley Brown
#60. Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.
Simon McBurney
#61. There are moments, when you're getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you've known your whole life.
Leah Raeder
#62. You don't have to know someone your whole life to know them. Not really. Lonely is the same everywhere.
Lamar Giles
#63. Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
Neal Shusterman
#64. Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.
Leah Raeder
#65. To know someone loves you just for being you is the greatest feeling in the world.
Tommy Cotton
#66. Often when we get to know someone whose words and deeds were off-putting, once we get a better sense of how that person is understanding events, our dislike dissipates.
Thomas Gilovich
#67. It is very easy to know someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget them.
Debasish Mridha
#68. You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
#69. I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
Tanith Lee
#70. You don't have to know someone all the way to miss them. Or to feel bad when they're gone" -Leo
Ally Condie
#71. I was right; just as soon as you take the first step toward getting to know someone your own age, everything you thought was magical about that person turns to shit right in front of your face
Matthew Quick
#72. It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.
Rhea Seehorn
#73. When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?
John C. Maxwell
#74. You get to know someone better not when they talk about themselves, but when they talk about others
S.E. Sever
#75. To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.
Sy Montgomery
#76. It could take a lifetime to really get to know someone. Do we ever really know everything about the people we love? No, I think that takes time, trust and respect.
Loni Flowers
#77. If you don't want to know someone, then you will never really know them.
Daisuke Hagiwara
#78. I don't even want to know someone who isn't barely hanging on by a thread.
Amy Schumer
#79. To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.
Anuj
#80. We have to know someone before we can truly love him. In order to know God, we must think about Him often. Once we get to know Him, we will think about Him even more often, because where our treasure is, there also is our heart!
Brother Lawrence
#81. Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
#82. If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#83. The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
Jesse Metcalfe
#84. To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#85. I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.
Michael Rady
#86. I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
Kali Hawk
#87. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke
#88. Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
Antonya Nelson
#89. All these years he's been so careful, but now he's willing to take a chance. Because he's found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell.
Ally Condie
#90. Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
Sally Pearson
#91. It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number.
David Chiles
#92. How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Margaret Mitchell
#93. It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.
Jeanne Phillips
#94. It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn't know their purpose, they get lost.
Emmanuel Jal
#95. If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.
Amy Tan
#96. To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful?
Michelle Tea
#97. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack
#98. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.
David Levithan
#99. How is it that a kiss can say so much?
Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means everything. A kiss speaks the truth, and I know. I know in his kisses, that he means every single word.
Heather Gunter
#100. But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.
Tony Dungy
