Quotes about anything

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“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.”

“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”

“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”

“More than anything, she wanted to crawl across the bloody sand toward the place where Jace’s body lay, crawl to him and lay down beside him and put her arms around him, even though he was gone.”

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

“Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.”

“don't be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.”

“We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We
go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.”

“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”

“For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!”

“Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro."
"Ditto. And don't kiss me.”

“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.”

“Emma," said Cameron warningly. "The Clave won't like it."
The Clave was the Shadowhunter government. In Kit's experience, they didn't like anything.”

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

“Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family… not even you.”

“In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.”

“That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.”

“I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.”

“Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”

“I hate change more than almost anything.”

“Kiss me," I said. "Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”

“We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.”

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

“You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!”

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius”

“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

“From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.”

“I went to a general store, but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.”

“Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over.
William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.”

“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”

“I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.”

“She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.”

“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.”

“claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself
shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here”

“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”

“Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?'

I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools”

“And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.”

“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”

“… some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

“An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!”

“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the
fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want”

“I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.”

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”

“This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.”

“You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose.”

“A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)”

“She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time”

“I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.”

“Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.”

“If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.”

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it”

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

“Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.”

“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”

“I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.”

“Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”

“Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.”

“Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”

“People find a way through just about anything.”

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.”

“Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.”

“I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

“It's easy to become anything you wish… so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.”

“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.”

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”

“Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.”

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”