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Quotes About Other

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
~ Ernst Mach
Negotiation, Information Technology, and the Problem of the Faceless Other," in Leigh L. Thompson, editor, Negotiation Theory and Research (Psychology Press, 2006).
~ Roger Fisher
In the heterosexual act, it might be said, I move out from my body towards the other, whose flesh is unknown to me; while in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own.
~ Roger Scruton
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
~ Roland Barthes
Is not any other desire but mine insane?
~ Roland Barthes
Askesis is addressed to the other: turn back, look at me, see what you have made of me. It is a blackmail: I raise before the other the figure of my own disappearance, as it will surely occur, if the other does not yield.
~ Roland Barthes
The heart is the organ of desire (the heart swells, weakens, etc., like the sexual organs), as it is held, enchanted, within the domain of the Image-repertoire. What will the world, what will the other do with my desire? That is the anxiety in which are gathered all the heart's movements, all the heart's 'problems.
~ Roland Barthes
They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.
~ Lee Child
It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.
~ Lewis Carroll
Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Hate is very easy to unleash, the Duke continued. All you need is the Other. And then people will take over from you and do all the hating that needs to be done, all the belittling, all the insulting and bullying.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
~ John Lennon
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
~ Jimmy Carter
paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled.
~ Anne Enright
Awareness of the other should be balanced by awareness of the self.
~ Anodea Judith
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
~ Barbara Kruger
Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
~ Ronnie Corbett
You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.
~ Roberto Bolano
Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.
~ Salman Rushdie
Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.
~ Joe Hill
Perhaps because I refuse to be less than the other part of your soul, my lord." "And nothing challenges a man as much as the voice of his own soul.
~ Joey W. Hill
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey