Quotes about everybody

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“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.”

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers…”

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”

“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”

“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”

“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

“Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.”

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.”

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”

“Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.”

“Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.”

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

“I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.”

“If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.”

“But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

“Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”

“I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.”

“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”

“Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.

That's the hope, anyway.”

“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

“High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life—those people are liars… Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose.”

“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”

“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”

“Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.”

“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”

“Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo”

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

“Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.”

“Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”

“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.”

“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”

“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”

“I fool everybody!”

“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”

“fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt”

“His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift.

But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.”

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

“Everybody has a theory.”

“Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.”

“Power power, everybody like wants power”

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.”

“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”

“Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot.”
Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.”

“Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.”

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”

“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”

“Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.”

“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”

“It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.”

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

“As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.”

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”

“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.”

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”

“Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.”

“Everybody's damaged by something.”

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”

“Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!”

“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”

“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

“Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”

“At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.”

“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”

“Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.”

“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”

“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.”

“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”