Top 100 The Only Person Quotes

#1. I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

Akio Morita

The Only Person Quotes #1349
#2. 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

The Only Person Quotes #2909
#3. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.

Julie Murphy

The Only Person Quotes #3860
#4. True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.

Henry Cloud

The Only Person Quotes #3971
#5. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

The Only Person Quotes #4351
#6. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.

Edward Hirsch

The Only Person Quotes #6109
#7. 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

The Only Person Quotes #6283
#8. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

The Only Person Quotes #6393
#9. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Only Person Quotes #6806
#10. In a way, I think a part of you has to die in order to get through a thing like that. It's the only way a person can survive it. When

Michelle Knight

The Only Person Quotes #7272
#11. No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don't tell anyone, 'you did wrong'. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it.

Dada Bhagwan

The Only Person Quotes #8504
#12. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

The Only Person Quotes #9623
#13. If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.

Ann Patchett

The Only Person Quotes #10118
#14. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.

Osho

The Only Person Quotes #10157
#15. 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

The Only Person Quotes #10182
#16. I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

Carla Gugino

The Only Person Quotes #11527
#17. You're the only person in the galaxy who would ever call me lovable."
"I'm the only person in the galaxy crazy enough to believe it.

Marissa Meyer

The Only Person Quotes #12212
#18. Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

Kristin Cashore

The Only Person Quotes #12885
#19. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.

Shana Norris

The Only Person Quotes #13332
#20. I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

Halle Berry

The Only Person Quotes #13482
#21. The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

Christopher Jones

The Only Person Quotes #16348
#22. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

The Only Person Quotes #17336
#23. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

The Only Person Quotes #19508
#24. The only person I have hurt is myself.

Salman Khan

The Only Person Quotes #20175
#25. HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Simonyi

The Only Person Quotes #20183
#26. The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

David Selby

The Only Person Quotes #21442
#27. The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

Franz Kafka

The Only Person Quotes #21687
#28. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.

Shannon L. Alder

The Only Person Quotes #21755
#29. I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

Brad Listi

The Only Person Quotes #23966
#30. 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

The Only Person Quotes #25413
#31. I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

The Only Person Quotes #26105
#32. The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a whole does not exist for me. Only the Other is in possession of the values of the being of a given person.

Mikhail Bakhtin

The Only Person Quotes #29507
#33. [...] here "white" could be the way a person talked; "black," the music a person listened to. In Ghana you could only be what you were, what your skin announced to the world.

Yaa Gyasi

The Only Person Quotes #30049
#34. I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything.

A.L. Jackson

The Only Person Quotes #30542
#35. If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin

The Only Person Quotes #30844
#36. A nook person finds the dog at the party; drinks wine from a mug; sits on the floor and braids carpet tassels only to become self-conscious and unbraid them.

Durga Chew-Bose

The Only Person Quotes #30966
#37. I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

Tom Robbins

The Only Person Quotes #31235
#38. 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

The Only Person Quotes #32528
#39. A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of his
needs. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential.

Sunday Adelaja

The Only Person Quotes #34132
#40. 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

The Only Person Quotes #34481
#41. 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

The Only Person Quotes #35165
#42. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

C. JoyBell C.

The Only Person Quotes #36575
#43. 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

The Only Person Quotes #36676
#44. Only the person who is faithful to God can fulfill his course

Sunday Adelaja

The Only Person Quotes #37226
#45. Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.

Susan Isaacs

The Only Person Quotes #38940
#46. 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

The Only Person Quotes #40396
#47. The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

Ruben Studdard

The Only Person Quotes #41136
#48. My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Only Person Quotes #41242
#49. Appreciate the good things in a person, help him to nurture more. Ignore the bad qualities in a person, he will figure a way out from it only if we help him a little.

Bella Meraki

The Only Person Quotes #41342
#50. 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

The Only Person Quotes #41407
#51. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Susane Colasanti

The Only Person Quotes #41425
#52. 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

The Only Person Quotes #41835
#53. Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like "paths in life" out loud.

Lee Smith

The Only Person Quotes #41984
#54. The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

Adriana Trigiani

The Only Person Quotes #41986
#55. There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

Alexandra Silber

The Only Person Quotes #41991
#56. 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

The Only Person Quotes #43234
#57. Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

Paris Reidhead

The Only Person Quotes #43300
#58. I knew that every time I saw a person on the street, I saw only his public shadow. The rest, the important part, lies in layer after layer beyond our view.
We have no idea what wonders lie hidden in the people around us.

Anne Nelson

The Only Person Quotes #44719
#59. I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

Buzz Aldrin

The Only Person Quotes #45870
#60. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The Only Person Quotes #46950
#61. That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.

Carol Rifka Brunt

The Only Person Quotes #48713
#62. You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

Kerry Washington

The Only Person Quotes #48978
#63. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.

Scott Adams

The Only Person Quotes #49979
#64. You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

Wilbert Rideau

The Only Person Quotes #50405
#65. An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Pope John Paul II

The Only Person Quotes #50971
#66. 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

The Only Person Quotes #51110
#67. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Ed Harris

The Only Person Quotes #51171
#68. It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

May Sarton

The Only Person Quotes #51547
#69. You must look for the good in people to have more of it appear. As you look only for the good things in a person, you will be amazed at what your new focus reveals.

Rhonda Byrne

The Only Person Quotes #53662
#70. 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

The Only Person Quotes #53785
#71. The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

Marilyn Wann

The Only Person Quotes #53991
#72. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

Corrie Ten Boom

The Only Person Quotes #56495
#73. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

The Only Person Quotes #56902
#74. The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Ilchi Lee

The Only Person Quotes #59335
#75. There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

Shannon L. Alder

The Only Person Quotes #61404
#76. 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

The Only Person Quotes #63469
#77. You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Uzo Aduba

The Only Person Quotes #63789
#78. 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

The Only Person Quotes #65227
#79. Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

Adam Clymer

The Only Person Quotes #66047
#80. Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.

Thornton Wilder

The Only Person Quotes #66501
#81. 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

The Only Person Quotes #66952
#82. Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

Roald Dahl

The Only Person Quotes #70298
#83. Never fall for anyone. It's only sadness that is gifted by them to you in your rest of the life.Kills the loving person inside you.

Debolina Bhawal

The Only Person Quotes #70395
#84. 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

The Only Person Quotes #70776
#85. But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

George MacDonald

The Only Person Quotes #71116
#86. Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

Sarah Dessen

The Only Person Quotes #71247
#87. The roast meat the animal had snatched was only a semblance. It was more than food, it was a meal not for human witness, a tangle of viscera, a species of human sacrifice - as if Emerence were feeding the actual person to the dog, along with all her fond memories and feelings.

Magda Szabo

The Only Person Quotes #71712
#88. The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

Max Beesley

The Only Person Quotes #73030
#89. The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Stephen Vizinczey

The Only Person Quotes #73119
#90. Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Nandan Nilekani

The Only Person Quotes #76714
#91. God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor ...

Raphael Kalinowski

The Only Person Quotes #77935
#92. The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Francois Fenelon

The Only Person Quotes #78883
#93. Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

Shiv Khera

The Only Person Quotes #78891
#94. 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

The Only Person Quotes #79537
#95. 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

The Only Person Quotes #80252
#96. Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Tom Hodgkinson

The Only Person Quotes #81985
#97. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

Dave Eggers

The Only Person Quotes #86198
#98. The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!

Simone Bittencourt De Oliveira

The Only Person Quotes #86421
#99. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.

S.R. Crawford

The Only Person Quotes #87450
#100. It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

John Green

The Only Person Quotes #88084

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