Top 100 Someone Else S Quotes
#1. A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
Joseph Campbell
#2. We know better than to compare ourselves with others online. We know a Facebook feed, for most, is a glorified highlights reel, a round-up of our best moments, our funniest selves, our greatest champions. We know not to compare our worst with someone else's best. But
Erin Loechner
#3. Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.
Brandi Chastain
#4. On screen, a hockey game raged on, the someones against the someone else's.
Kylie Scott
#5. One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
Jeannette Walls
#6. To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.
Min
#8. Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.
Frankie Muniz
#9. She is great," said Jared. "And beautiful. She's like a star to me, something bright and lovely seen from another world. She's someone else's sun. That's how all other girls are to me. You're my sun.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#10. Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary Karr
#11. It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.
Julia Glass
#12. You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#13. The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death. The
Dinah McCall
#14. It's like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else's story.
Margaret Cho
#15. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#16. I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.
Anthony Powell
#17. Your first attempt will be terrible ... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft ... Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, 'It just flowed out of me,' I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.
Pamela Druckerman
#18. I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
Christina Aguilera
#19. You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
Anthony Marra
#20. Have you ever been in a pub where everyone goes armed? Oh, things are a little polite at first, I'll grant you, and then some twerp drinks out of the wrong mug or picks up someone else's change by mistake and five minutes later you're picking noses out of the beer nuts
Terry Pratchett
#21. You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely.
Ava Sinclair
#22. The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
Emily Oster
#23. You don't need to live up to someone else's standards. If you live up to your own, you will do perfectly well.
Elizabeth Neff Walker
#24. I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.
Jane Hamilton
#25. You can't judge someone else's grief - we're all grieving something, and everyone has the right to be sad about whatever the hell they want to be sad about.
Amanda Richardson
#27. I bought a cheap piece of land ... It was on someone else's property.
Steven Wright
#28. We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
Gregory David Roberts
#29. The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else's children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
Aberjhani
#30. It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.
Bonnie McKee
#31. There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
Sue Grafton
#32. I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn't real would somehow make it go away.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#33. That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?
Ashley Hay
#34. Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.
Mira Grant
#35. True love is when you put someone else's life before yours.
Anonymous
#36. When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.
Lily Collins
#37. I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#38. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.
Antoine Laurain
#39. I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower's target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head.
Amy Plum
#40. Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
Orson Welles
#41. We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.
Joyce Meyer
#42. It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.
Shreve Stockton
#43. If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
Daphne Oz
#44. Do you have any advice for your readers?
Lead the life that's yours instead of faking someone else's.
Sandy Nathan
#45. I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.
Rhys Thomas
#46. Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold
Neal Shusterman
#47. I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.
Ester Dean
#48. There's no more happiness," Leo said roughly. "There's no peace in any damn corner of my life. She took it all with her. For pity's sake, Amelia ... go meddle in someone else's affairs, and leave me the hell alone.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.
Matt Bahr
#50. I'd take your tears over someone else's smile any day. I just want to be wherever you are. Even if that's crying on the bathroom floor.
Jeannine Allison
#51. In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
Alice Munro
#52. The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
Kit Williams
#53. By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
Rachel Hunter
#54. A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe ... it's you!
Karrine Steffans
#55. Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
Hillary Clinton
#56. Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Malorie Blackman
#57. Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.
Cecelia Ahern
#58. He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#59. You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them
Mark Batterson
#60. Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
Simon Travaglia
#61. It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
Thomas More
#62. Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
Daniel Goleman
#63. If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
Joseph Campbell
#64. We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
Robert Breault
#65. Vivian, I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient I've brought you someone else's."
"Rafe you jerk, this is a sheep's heart.
Annette Curtis Klause
#66. You have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".
Joyce Meyer
#67. The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace
#68. I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.
Alex Hirsch
#69. I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.
Julie London
#70. Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.
Marlene Dietrich
#71. As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
Martha Beck
#72. There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#73. we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips
#75. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't currently rocking someone else's world.
Kathryn Budig
#76. Don't worry," she said, seriously. "Most of the blood was someone else's." She
Neil Gaiman
#77. I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia Sotomayor
#78. Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#79. I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism on someone else, it just hurts relationships whereas grace and trusting someone else's heart is a really, really incredible and important part of any relationship.
Rebecca St. James
#80. The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.
Elizabeth Taylor
#82. I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.
Ruth Reichl
#83. The simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybody's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties. Lord Ram was a genius!
Amish Tripathi
#84. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache
Clint Catalyst
#85. I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.
Morgan Llywelyn
#86. Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
Jon Acuff
#87. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#88. I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.
Amy Plum
#89. It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#90. One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
Edward M. Lerner
#91. Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. Yet I also believe that when you do unto others, blessings come to you as well. So if you don't have a friend, be a friend. If you are having a bad day, make someone else's day. If your feelings are hurt, heal those of another.
Nick Vujicic
#93. I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.
Joanna Bolouri
#94. I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.
Don DeLillo
#95. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#96. That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.
Mark Webber
#97. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.
Mary Stewart
#98. Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
Sandra Cisneros
#99. If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only ...
Ray Bradbury
#100. How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else's life hell.
M.F. Moonzajer
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