Quotes about anything

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“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

“I whispered “I’m not,” even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.”

“In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.”

“I swear on the Angel.” He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. “The hell with that.
I swear on us.”
Clary wound her fingers into the sleeve of his T-shirt. “Why us?”
“Because there isn’t anything I believe in more.”

“Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”

“I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!”

“God give me anything but a good man's pity.”

“Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.”

“Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

“She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.”

“Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.”

“You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare”

“Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin…. We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

“I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.”

“regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.”

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”

“Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”

“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”

“It didn’t seem to matter how much he resented Percy Jackson; Nico would do anything for him. He hated himself for that.”

“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”

“Work could cure almost anything”

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”

“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better…”

“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”

“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”

“You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.”

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.”

“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”

“There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.”

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

“Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.”

“Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.”

“It's all about family [jake]. It was always about family. It will always be that way if I have anything to say about it.”

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”

“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

“Why do you think people cheat?," I asked.
"Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?”

“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”

“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

“Crying wouldn't help anything now.”

“Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian.

DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T

Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.”

“Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

“The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963”

“He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?

"No.”

“I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.”

“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

“You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.”

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”

“there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.”

“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist… I am a person who does those things.”

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you— it freaks me out.”

“You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more.”

“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”

“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.”

“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

“What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.”

“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”

“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

“I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.”

“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”

“Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.”

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. Therebe a God and heknow anything about us.”

“You need anything else…

You to touch me like I matter…”

“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world…”

“This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction."

"That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.”

“A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

“"What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?"
"Because only Jace can piss someone off that much."”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“I would do anything for you. Anything."

With that, he pushed his way out… and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.

Actions did mean more than words.”

“God never does anything accidentally…”