Quotes about anyone

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“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)”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”