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“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Understanding

“Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

Men

“Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

Life

“I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Feeling

“When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

God

“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.”

Alberto Salazar (1958) American track coach and long-distance runner born in Cuba

“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

Cute, Smile

“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Ghostworld

“Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Passion

Love, Death, Thinking

“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

Reality, Madness

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Children, Family, Imagination, Thinking

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

Life, Loss

“Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close."
"Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Grandma, Personality

“After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Lovers, Change

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

Cats

“Has anyone ever told you you’re sexy as hell when you’re mathematizing?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

Mathematics, Hell

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Wisdom

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Love, Soul, Heart

“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Source: Lucky

“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

War

“Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Age, Time

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Love, Feeling, Business

“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

Reading

“But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Kiss

Pain, Nature, Appearance

“You don’t like people who have money, do you? (Astrid)
I’m not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Money, Hate, People, Princess

“You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs.
"Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

“Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”

Po Bronson (1964) American writer

Source: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

Imagination, Passion, Time

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”

Penelope Lively (1933) British novelist

Lying

“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Variant: you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

“Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?”

Tom Butler-Bowdon (1967) Australian writer

Source: 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

“Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Star, Thinking, Light

“You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Home, Coffee, Night

“Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.”

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

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Life

“No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian

“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Hate

“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Time

“On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved
anything or anyone, I said, “Go to hell.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Boy, Hell

“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

Time

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Love

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Love

“Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they’re after an image, not a person.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Interlude “Striking Sparks” section 6 (p. 247)
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013)

Personality

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

"Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990) http://www.csicop.org/si/show/why_we_need_to_understand_science

Science, Dependency

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?… It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Past, Future

“And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself,
"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

People, Lie, Fools

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Wise, Graduation, Learning

“Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."

He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

School, Thinking

“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Dreams

“Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

Waiting

“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.”

Philip G. Zimbardo (1933) American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment

Evil

“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part… Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Parting

“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Source: Krik? Krak!

People, World, Water, Sea

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

Deep

“She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
--City of Ember”

Jeanne DuPrau (1944) American writer

Heart, Personality

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Source: Desert Solitaire

Tree, Help

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Mother's Day, For Mother, Food, Memory

“Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?”
“I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Time

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”

Christopher Moore book Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

Thinking

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

World

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Variant: ... anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.
Source: Saga, Vol. 6

Books, Thinking, Reading

“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Source: Anathem

God

“Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Smile

“I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

People, Lie, World, Personality

“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Truth, Forgetting

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) Hungarian Swiss writer

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Home, Fight

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Way, Understanding, Heart

“Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit…”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Love, Revenge

“You are… you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

Source: Heart's Blood

Heart

“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”

Jacqueline Susann book Valley of the Dolls

Source: Valley of the Dolls

People

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

James A. Owen (1969) Illustrator

Source: The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

“So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

People, Thinking

“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”

Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy

Source: Red Mars

People, Thinking, Distant

“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Thinking

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Thinking

“Well, what are we waiting for?… She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonQuest

Children, Waiting

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Decision

“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

People, Way

“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Personality

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Star, Sense, Universe, Night

“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc…. doesnt anyone check these?”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

Source: Everything Flows

Imagination, Forgetting, Happiness

“If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Imagination

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

World, Beauty

“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Guy, Parting

“There's only one racing strategy that matters. It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Stupidity, Feeling

“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“I mean it," I said. "You're in danger."

"Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Love, People, Sense, Silence

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Source: The Fry Chronicles

Love, World, Beauty, Understanding

“The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.”

Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife

Source: The Subtle Knife

Sense

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