Top 1200 Understanding Someone Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

When you're indie and you have your hands on yourself and you're not working for someone, you're working with someone and you're dealing with them, it's a totally different feeling involved.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

I could never know someone who could hurt someone else and not feel like a horrible person.

I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

Telling someone you have a web series is the same thing as telling someone, 'On Monday, I start work at Chipotle.'

I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say 'no' to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say "no" to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

From understanding comes LOVE.

Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Whether my team-mate is someone with 15 years' experience or someone of one year's experience, my approach doesn't change.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

No one hates someone spitting at someone more than I do and it is frowned upon in our country. It is a horrible, horrible thing to do.

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

Someone who just has a really good heart - it's so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you - makes you better.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.