Quotes about anyone
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“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Love, Life

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

God, Thinking

“I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: The Devil's Web

Love

“Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?"
"I'll try,"I told him seriously.
"You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Thinking

“I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Damaged: A Violated Trust

God, Feeling, Chance, Hurt

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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Sex

“Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Life, Time

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

love, Heart Touching, For Her, Love

“I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Music

“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Alcohol, Disease, Suffering

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Books, Music, Thinking, Time

“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Women, Men, Time

“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, Way

“Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Sleep, Study

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Learning

“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols

Sense

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.”

Christopher Hitchens book The Missionary Position

Source: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

World, Motivation

“and sometimes I sit
down at my typewriter
and I think
not of someone
cause there isn't anyone
to think
about and i wonder
is it worth it”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Thinking

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Reading

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Way, Hurt

“I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Love

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Freedom

“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Men

“I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“Pirates could happen to anyone.”

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Life

“The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”

Erich Segal book Doctors

Source: Doctors

People

“Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“But listen to me when I say this. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Feeling, Coffee, Teachers

“Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Cryptic Cravings

“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”

Ira Levin book Rosemary's Baby

Source: Rosemary's Baby

Travel

“Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.”

Scarlett Thomas (1972) British writer

Source: Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories

Motivation

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes

World, Faith

“Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

Love, Making love, Imagination

“A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: D is for Deadbeat

Dependency

“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself… know what you want.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals (2009)
Context: People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong. They're packed body to body, and can't escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It's wrong. They feel their slaughters. It's wrong, and people know it's wrong. They don't have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

People

“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love, Way

“Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Sleep

“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Parting

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."

Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth.

"You know… I love you madly."

He smiled. "Yes, I know.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Love, Smile, Angels

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

People, Fear, Thinking

“Like anyone cared where I was, or who I was.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.”
“Well…yes.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Hurt

“I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Thinking

“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”

Julie Otsuka (1962) writer

Source: When the Emperor Was Divine

Dreams, Girl, Boy

“Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Dead

“Thisabout Tessa. I knew it was."
Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. "Not just her."
"But you love her."
Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Color, Thinking

“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 32

Truth, Feeling, Sense

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

“Piper McLean," [Annabeth] grumbled, "that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

Danielle Steel Big Girl

Source: Big Girl

Love, People, Feeling

“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”

Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: The Wisdom of the Heart (1951), "The Alcoholic Veteran with the Washboard Cranium", p. 122

Way

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Love, Fear, Faith, Revenge

“You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Way

“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that; s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

People, Way, Error, Knowledge

“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Love

“People don't talk about anything… No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

People, Cars, Clothes

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Sea

“Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Sister

“Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Life, Fear, Imagination, Thinking

“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Women, Men, Age, Way

“Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company."

"First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Lost Stories

Way, Time

“There's never going to be anyone else for me. That's just how it is.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

World

“Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

Books

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

Feeling, Personality

“So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

--, suspected false quotation”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Painting, Falseness

“…I said everything that matters… Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Life, Happiness

“It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love

“She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Feeling

“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

For Parents, Cars, Birth

“But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Imagination, Change

“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

Soul

“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Rant in E-Minor (1997)
Variant: The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Love, God, Forgiveness, Question