Quotes about anything

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“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

“Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.”

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”

“Today, I demand that a film express either theor the. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”

“Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.”

“I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.”

“The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything”

“I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”

“"There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo."”

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”

“There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.”

“She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.”

“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

“Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.”

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

“There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”

“Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”

“Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?”

“Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything
related to his feelings for you”

“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

“… the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

“Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.”

“Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.
"Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.”

“At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.”

“If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded.

It would be an honor, Miss.”

“He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.”

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

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

“I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?”

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

“Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. me, liked me.”
“you, liked you?” Magnus buried his grin in the cat’s fur. “Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don’t recall saying anything to Isabelle…”

“He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised..”

“I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.”

“How are you?"
"Perfectly fine," he said.
"Are your ribs broken?"
"Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully."
"Did this settle anything?"
"It made me feel better," he said, sitting up. "Did you see me kick him in the kidneys?"
"I saw.”

“Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

“Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

“I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”

“Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.”

“Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

“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.”

“If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.”

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

“Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye."

How could she say anything else?”

“So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth?”

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

“In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy… anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”

“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”

“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”

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

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

“That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that… they say anything's possible, right?”

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.”

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition… A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says."

No, it's not…”

“Stop calling your akri your daddy. It makes my wings droop. (Xirena)
My akri is my daddy. He said so and it is so, so your wings can droop all they want, ‘cause it won’t change anything! (Simi)”

“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”

“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”

“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.”

“It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.”

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

“We all belong here equally… Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.”

“Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.”

“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”

“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

“I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.”

“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick…”

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”

“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all.

In no time, what I wished for, I became.”

“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”

“you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.”

“Never say love is "like" anything… It isn't.”

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”