Someone Quotes
25103 Someone quotes by 9350 unique authors
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Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
— Oprah Winfrey
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to…
— Vernon Howard
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How…
— Stephen Covey
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of…
— Willis R. Whitney
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation…
— Epicurus
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If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.
— Byron Katie
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer…
— Pope Francis
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Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future…
— Paul Dirac
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you…
— David Maraniss
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their…
— Simon Schama
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
— Gerald Brenan
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
— Richard DeVos
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
— Mario Batali
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness…
— Alphonse Karr
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When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.
— Thomas Beecham
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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend PelĂ© has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without…
— Unknown Author
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire…
— Dan Barker
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