Quotes about anything page 4
“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 75 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
July 1890, page 320
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Through the Looking-Glass
“Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 73
“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Student Loans
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author
Source: Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Context: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
“I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.”
Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) German playwright
Source: Spring's Awakening
“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
“Possession of anything begins in the mind.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Hugh Laurie (1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director
Context: (Answering "What made you step up to making your own record?") I felt like I may not get opportunities to do this ever again, so it’s about time—it’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something—I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
“Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Speech to the House of Commons (8 June 1982) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/60882a.htm <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) <br class="br">Context: From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.... If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Roald Dahl book Matilda
Source: Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
Barack Obama Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night (8 January 2008)
2008
Context: We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.
Context: We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Marx quoted and translated by Engels (in an 1882 letter to Eduard Bernstein) about the peculiar Marxism which arose in France 1882. Original: "Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste" http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1882/letters/82_11_02.htm#356 <br class="br">Original: Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste.
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“… don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience…”
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”
Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
No. 14.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Variant: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 111
“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
Barry Lyga (1971) American writer
Source: I Hunt Killers
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)
“In an infinite Universe anything can happen.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1935) by Dale Carnegie, p. 117; also paraphrased as "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself." Attributions are found as early as 1882. <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=h70_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA476&dq=You+cannot+teach+a+man+anything;+you+can+only+help+him+find+it+within+himself&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI39Gmss_gyAIVRNRjCh1Q2wGN#v=onepage&q=%22You%20cannot%20teach%22&f=false
“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton