When Someone Quotes
1299 quotes by 827 authors
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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more…
— Thomas Cahill
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There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they…
— Chris Botti
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
— E. J. Hughes
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When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never…
— Frederick Lenz
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When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the…
— J. Vernon McGee
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When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.
— Frederick Lenz
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Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.
— Judith Martin
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Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that,…
— Frederick Lenz
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When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.
— Amy Dickinson
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When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
— Judith Martin
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When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.
— Chuck Liddell
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It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
— Joe Bradley
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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
— Courtney Milan
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Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying.…
— Lauren Barnholdt
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When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.
— Lauren Barnholdt
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When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.
— Craig Stone
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Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.
— Hilton Als
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I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,'…
— Pope Francis
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
— Richard Gere
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