Someone With Quotes

#1. That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Walter Jon Williams

#2. How could someone with a bloody rag around their arm look that confident? Because he could sing someone to death?

Kim Harrison

#3. When you think of someone with love, your heart dances with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#4. My definition of a great manager is someone with whom you can make a connection no matter where you sit in the organization chart.

Michael Lopp

#5. Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?

Miyuki Miyabe

#6. I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

Jo Walton

#7. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

George Carlin

#8. You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.

Melina Marchetta

#9. I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up.

Gregory Maguire

#10. If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Plotinus

#11. Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ... He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

Tom Johnson

#13. Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.

Darren Hardy

#14. I stare at the crowbar between us. You've never truly felt the weight of something like that until you've destroyed someone with it.

Courtney Summers

#15. Maybe this was a selfish choice. Someone nobler than me might have given Okiku the final peace she deserves. Someone with less baggage that she would have let him.

But flawed as we are, we are perfect together.

After all, I'm no hero.

Rin Chupeco

#16. Don't take the people you love for granted. Don't ever be scared to love someone with your whole heart. Be transparent.

Liza Palmer

#17. It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

Dallas Willard

#18. I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

Neil Diamond

#19. An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

Eric Cantona

#20. One part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is hard: it requires discipline, willpower, and opening your heart again and again to someone with whom you are angry, can't stand, and do not like.

Sam Keen

#21. The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

Evangelos Venizelos

#22. Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Ron Chernow

#23. You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Richard Selzer

#24. Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.

Chris Messina

#25. We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

Herb Kelleher

#26. If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

Grant Fuhr

#27. Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.

Tariq Ramadan

#28. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!

Stacey Turis

#29. Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Winston Churchill

#30. I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Aaron Johnson

#31. I'm already someone else, but the person I turn into at these low points is someone I never imagined I could be a few years ago: someone with a hot knot of fury where her heart used to be.

Harriet Lane

#32. Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

Sarah Addison Allen

#33. I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

Kristi Noem

#34. Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy.
-Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

Masashi Kishimoto

#35. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

David Brooks

#36. Andy was speechless. He'd forgotten that there was actually another person in the room- someone with her own needs and desires and shit to freak out about. But it was funny, or better than funny, that sometimes two people could be feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time.

Tommy Wallach

#37. Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

Nana Awere Damoah

#38. A close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)

Daniel J. Levitin

#39. Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Walter Moers

#40. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#41. I do not take commands from someone with no character or appreciative mindset.

Mohith Agadi

#42. You can't look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.

Karen Marie Moning

#43. Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

Martin Firrell

#44. He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.

Thomas F. Monteleone

#45. Ain't nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

J.D. Jordan

#46. The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

Thomas Jefferson

#47. I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

Daniel Radcliffe

#48. In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

J.M. Coetzee

#49. I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.

Chad Harbach

#50. Your dreams may seem impossible to someone with insomnia.

Junnita Jackson

#51. Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#52. Yet union with a partner - someone with whom to wake, whom you love, and talk with on and off all day, and sit with at dinner, and watch TV and movies with, and read together in bed with, and do hard tasks with, and are loved by. That sounds really lovely.

Anne Lamott

#53. You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn."
"Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.

Peter Lerangis

#54. Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable.

Sam Hamill

#55. We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

Brian Lindstrom

#56. I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

Andy Dick

#57. It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

Karen Duffy

#58. An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen.

Andy Weir

#59. It's strange to hear myself described as someone with a big heart. I've blocked out a lot of the memories of L.A., but perhaps in some ways the girl I used to be was better than the girl I am now. Now I feel so cold, almost incapable of loving anything.

Paula Stokes

#60. Like the sun, touch someone with the warmth of your kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#61. You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely.

Brandon Sanderson

#62. the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.

Bill O'Reilly

#63. People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Israel Horovitz

#64. There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Daniel Craig

#65. You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.

Julie Bertagna

#66. When someone with no reason and no compassion is given the power and resources of the strongest nation on the planet - well, I shudder to think what will happen.

Sandra Miller

#67. When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Richard Hatch

#68. I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.

Kiran Arshad

#69. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

Elliot Perlman

#70. I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

Rob Brydon

#71. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Andy Rooney

#72. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane

#73. The Boston Globe is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used to date actress Morgan Fairchild but it didn't work out. Apparently she couldn't handle dating someone with bigger hair then she had.

Jay Leno

#74. If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami

#75. I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

Martin Freeman

#76. I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#77. I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

James Tobin

#78. It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

Nick Hornby

#79. I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Chris Toumazou

#80. I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

Aarti Sequeira

#81. How much to make her go to her room and stop talking to me?" Cal asked.
While I gaped at his rudeness, Gigi coughed a rather obvious "douchebag!" into her fist. I caught her eye and shook my head emphatically. Douche-coughing someone with superhearing was not a responsible choice.

Molly Harper

#82. It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

Thomas Harris

#83. The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.

Philip Yancey

#84. There was a time when, if you encountered someone with a tattoo, you could pretty much assume he was either a sailor or had, at one time or another, been in prison. There was something, it seemed, about men being cooped up together that made them want to draw on themselves.

Cuthbert Soup

#85. The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

Stella Young

#86. The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

Laurie Graham

#87. Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

Elliot Perlman

#88. People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

Jamaica Kincaid

#89. You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up.

Archibald Marwizi

#90. Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

Oscar Isaac

#91. I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time

Marilynne Robinson

#92. Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

David S.E. Zapanta

#93. Then again, no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it.

Neil Strauss

#94. SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

Jenny Holzer

#95. The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

William Zinsser

#96. You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

#97. We have someone with us who is dying
someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?

Tony DiTerlizzi

#98. If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.

C S Areson

#99. My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Brandy Norwood

#100. I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers ... The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.

Sheri Holman