That One Person Quotes - Page 2

• A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.

  Nick Kroll

  Pieces, Littles, Dialogue

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

  Colleen McCullough

  Mean, Frightening, Persons

  Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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• I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Two, Saint

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• The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

  Rick Yancey

  Matter, Minutes, Persons

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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• But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

  Abbi Glines

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Screw Ups

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Two, Thousand, Forty

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• There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Years, People

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• The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, House, Political

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• Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

  Lynsay Sands

  Stupid, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.

  Carmen Electra

  Mean, People, Negative

  "Model, Actress, Musician Carmen Electra: Staying Calm in a Stressful Business". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Leader, Needs, Safe

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• It's crazy how your mind works because you can receive hundreds and thousands of all these love posts and all this good affirmation on Instagram or Twitter. And then that one person writes one thing that dims your light but that's the thing you can't let it dim your light, because what I've realized - it's really not your problem, it's theirs.

  Danielle Brooks

  Crazy, Writing, Light

  "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.

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• Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.

  John Mulaney

  Order, Boards, My Favorite

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

  Walter E. Williams

  Trying, Pay, Congress

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.107, Hoover Press

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• Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Father, Voice

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.

  Julian Beck

  Pain, War, People

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• That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.

  Tiffany Villarreal

  Heart, People, Machines

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?

  Esther Earl

  Writing, Mean, One Day

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• Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

  Michel Foucault

  Exercise, Power, Groups

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.34, MIT Press

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• The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

  Sara Paretsky

  Responsibility, Thinking, Too Much

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

  Vin Scully

  Talking, Persons, Felt

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• If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Order, Enemy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

  Warren E. Burger

  May, Mercy, Changed

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• There's always that one person that you always go back to.

  Lauren Conrad

  Persons

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• A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Blessing, People, Giving

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