Quotes about anything

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“It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

“The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.”

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”

“I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.”

“It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.”

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

“Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.”

“As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.”

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”

“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”

“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”

“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”

“We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.”

“What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?”

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In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”

“It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.”

“No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”

“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

“When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.
I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?”

“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.”

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

“Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.”

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.”

“In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.”

“That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.”

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?”

“The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked.

“You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.”

“You see that massive giantess blocking the river?” “Technically speaking,” Jack said, “I can’t see anything, because I don’t have eyes. But yes, I see the giant.”

“Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?”

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

“If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be?

She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, He'd smiled faintly. he'd thought but not said.”

“When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.”

“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”

“If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.”

“Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.”

“Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.”

“I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.”

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”

“I won’t be satisfied with anything less than everything”

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

“Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.”

“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”

“I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.”

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

“You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?”

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”

“It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

“We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”

“I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.”

“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.”

“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”

“Until meeting you, I wasn’t looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I’m kind of looking for a girlfriend.”

“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.”

“One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

“My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.”

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.”

“Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?”

“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”

“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?”

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”

“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just… in between.”