Top 1200 Knowing Someone Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.

A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

We would have never gotten mace had someone not thought, There must be a good way to burn someone's eyes.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

The one thing you never want to do in politics is take the hit for someone else's misconduct - especially someone as erratic as President Trump.

I would never take a fight with someone to one-up someone else. You know, you do things because you want to do them.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

You'll be someone's favourite, and someone else is going to hate you, aren't they? I know that I can't please everyone, but what I can do is be myself and be true to my values.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I'm not afraid of someone taller.

When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis.

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

I'd rather take that chance and lose to someone who's the best in the world than beat someone nobody has ever heard of.

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someone

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

If you see someone struggling, offer input. If someone comes to you with a question, don't assume they should seek a higher up for the answer.

I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

Someone who didn't do comedy might think it was awful to have someone talking about you. But I just love the attention, even if I'm not there.

Being committed or loyal to someone doesn’t mean you won’t ever be attracted to someone else. It means you won’t physically act upon the attraction.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

I don't even watch my own fights. If it's not someone from my team or someone I like, I guarantee you that I'll go to the movies with my family instead.

Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.

Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.

The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.

I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly.

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It's so important to stand up and say something.

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.