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“I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119 <br class="br">1830s

Thinking

“I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.”

Idris Elba (1972) English actor, DJ and recording artist

Personality

“Victory shall be ours, but has to be in our hearts only the Greek sentiment. Anyone ready to listen servily to the foreign [powers] is a traitor.”

Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776–1831) Greek politician and diplomat, first Governor of the modern Greek state

On a conversation with Georgakis Mavromichalis after his arrival (1828), during the Greek War of Independence.

In Georgios Tertsetis, "Kolokotronis' Memoirs", Apologa about Capodistrias

Victory, Heart

“and as they, when they have once mastered them, are easily able to manage all others; so I, after managing Xanthippe, can easily live with anyone else whatever.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Diogenes Laertius

“Never reveal your dark moments to anyone, for what people do not know cannot be utilized to destroy you. By nature, people are envious and jealous; and will attempt to bring you down. Silence reveals nothing.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1974

Silence, People, Nature

“If something or someone makes you happy and brings joy to your life, it does not have to make sense to anyone else.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1978

Happiness, Joy, Sense, Life

“We must never permit anyone with limited knowledge of us to define who we are. It is best to disassociate from their existence.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979

Knowledge

“It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

World

“It seems that the majority of men are suggestible, half-awake children, willing to surrender their will to anyone who speaks with a voice that is threatening or sweet enough to sway them. Indeed, he who has a conviction strong enough to withstand the opposition of the crowd is the exception rather than the rule, an exception often admired centuries later, mostly laughed at by his contemporaries.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil.

“I don’t believe that anyone should be told that they are not enough or not valid for being their true selves.”

Matkai Burmaster (1992) Film Director and Co-Founder of the Fearless streaming service

Source: Addicted Magazine - https://www.weraddicted.com/matkai-burmaster-wants-us-to-be-fearless-about-our-streaming-and-digital-content-creating/

“It is always improper to intentionally offend anyone; and if someone is offended by your actions or words, they are not necessarily right.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1981

“All our ideas are representations of the objects that affect our senses; then what can be represented by the idea of God, which is obviously an idea without an object? Isn't such an idea, or will add, as impossible as effects without causes? Isn't an idea without a prototype anything but a chimera? Some Doctors of the Church, you will continue, assure us that the notion of God is innate, and that a man already has this notion in his mother's womb. But that is wrong, you will add; every principle is a judgement, every judgement is the result of experience, and experience can be gained only through the exercise of the senses. And it thereby follows that religious principles are obviously based on nothing and are not innate at all. How, you will go on, could anyone persuade rational beings that the hardest thing to grasp was the most essential thing for them? They were terrified; and when you are terrified, you are no longer rational. Above all, they were told to distrust their reasoning; and when the brains are muddled, you believe everything and examine nothing. Fear and ignorance, you will continue, are two mainstays of any and all religions.”

Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom

Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)

God, Religion, Sense, Idea

“You gotta have people supporting it because it’s entertainment so if you’re not entertaining anyone or making sure that you’re growing that grassroots fanbase or you’re not going to get anywhere.”

Allisyn Ashley Arm (1996) American actress

CHATTING WITH ALLISYN & DYLAN SNYDER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWi8H6t3jCQ (September 16, 2020)

Support, Making love, People

“Was anyone hurt?”

Evelyn Waugh book A Handful of Dust

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
First lines
A Handful of Dust (1934)

Hurt

“One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large organization) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised. It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.”

Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future

"The Nature of Freedom", paragraph 94
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

Freedom, Exercises

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

Time

“Anyone or anything that forces me to fall asleep when I want to stay awake is considered toxic to my senses.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Sense

“Honesty is the only sign of those who expect nothing from anyone.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I cannot allow or encourage anyone to become a philosopher. But once you find the inspiration to become one of them, there will be no one to stop you.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Some people can't focus on the present moment for a great reason that they can't explain to anyone else.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People

“The fallen angels took full responsibility. I don't think anyone tempted the devil to rebel in the first place. He just made up his own mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Angels, Thinking

“The names Christ and Buddha are just common names, and anyone can easily claim them.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Christ

“We are more inclined to marry [your] sister the infanta, Isabella, than anyone else because there is no daughter of a king as ready as her.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

Sister, Daughters

“Don't run after anyone.
Be Yourself.
Do what you do best.
Be true to yourself.
Have good karma.
The right people will come your way eventually
and remain in your life.
Friendship on the onset is like a seed.
It is what you put into it that makes it
grow beautifully into a thriving
flower.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Friendship, People, Flowers, Way

“Only when one is equipped with the formidable striking capabilities, overwhelming military power that cannot be stopped by anyone, one can prevent a war, guarantee the security of the country and contain and put under control all threats and blackmails by the imperialists.”

Kim Jong-un (1984) 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea

As quoted in "Kim Jong Un Defends Nuclear Tests, Says 'powerful Weapons' Help Mitigate Threats" in Republic World https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/kim-jong-un-defends-nuclear-tests-says-powerful-weapons-help-mitigate-threats-articleshow.html (28 March 2022)

War, Country

“Do your best. That's all you can ask of yourself. If you did your best and things just didn't work out, you don't owe an apology to anyone. And you certainly don't need to feel 'bad' about it -- or, worse yet, guilty.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Feeling

“Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Life

“I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.”

James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author

Books, Reading, Night

“As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

Law, Nature, Thinking

“Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

People, Dead

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Age, Lying, Patience

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Love, Training

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Behavior, Personality

“How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Business

“Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”

Stephen King book Cell

Source: Cell

Way, Intelligence

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Love, People, Childhood, Hurt

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Variant: The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Source: How to Be Good

Love

“Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

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

Soul

“That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Fools, Reading

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Interview with Scholastic students http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/lloyd-alexander-interview-transcript (1999)

Reading

“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

Hope, Happiness

“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

“I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you.”

Meg Cabot book How to Be Popular

Source: How to Be Popular

Thinking, Chance, Time

“I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Pain

“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

World, Understanding, Time

“Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn’t seen me naked?” I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone.

“I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Hope

“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

Gene Wolfe book There Are Doors

Source: There Are Doors

Love, Lovers

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Beowulf

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

Baby

“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Feeling, Change

“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Pain, Fear, Feeling, Personality

“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”

John Perkins (1945) American author

People

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Source: Geek Love

Love, Truth, Nature

“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Reading

“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling, Thinking, Forgetting

“Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's.”

Elizabeth Noble (1968) British novelist

Source: The Way We Were

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

From Are You the One for Me? (1992)

Love, Time, Personality

“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

Barbara Marciniak (1928–2012)

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Truth

“Seth told us good night and left.

I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Feeling, Night

“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

God, Help, Selfishness

“So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“… for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Girl, Lovers

“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”

Amanda Boyden American writer

Source: Pretty Little Dirty

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

People

“Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?'
'You could wring me out,' I reply.
Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into lunch. ' Don't worry, 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

Smile, Way, Hurt

“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Personality

“I just don’t see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara)
And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don’t understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

God, World, Girl, Understanding

“He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Girl, Reading

“Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Question

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

God, Age, Tree, Change

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Books, Personality

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Once and Always

Love, Fools, Hell, Happiness

“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.”

August Wilson (1945–2005) American playwright

“My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

Personality

“He’s my whole world.”
“Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

World

“Has anyone seen Church? I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church in the backseat of a car.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Isabelle Lightwood, pg. 715
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Cars, Cats, Thinking