Quotes about everyone
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“Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Cats, Thinking

“Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo.
"Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”

Ethan Hawke book The Hottest State

Source: The Hottest State

World, Dreams

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Kiss, Personality

“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

Love, Life, Truth

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

God

“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Loyalty

“He shrugged. "The same as any other. It's a way to make people feel better about themselves. Everyone likes feeling special. Being part of an elite group is a way to do that."
"But you weren't part of it?"
"No need. I already know I'm special.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

People, Way, Feeling, Parting

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Moms, Dance, Flying

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Variant: Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Source: The Three Musketeers

Lovers

“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, Light

“Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Learning, Time

“Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus on Top

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love

“Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Brave

Source: Among the Brave

Waiting

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”

Marilynne Robinson (1943) American novelist and essayist

Life

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

“I love you, you see… and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted……. Or not obviously”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Love, World, Fear, Way

“Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

Disease, Law, Nature

“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Memory

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People, Thinking

“Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Hate

“Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Free

Source: Among the Free

“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

People

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Happiness, Mountain

“And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

Learning

“You teach combat, I guess.”

Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?”

Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy’s back. “Uh, I don’t know.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Guy, Fish

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”

Kate DiCamillo (1964) American children's writer

Source: Despereaux = Tale of Despereaux

Fate

“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

Understanding

“You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sadness

“Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Reality

“No… I mean, I'm sorry he… You know, said those things to you."
"It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Family, Parting

“Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

People, Understanding

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Thinking

“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Truth, Silence

“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Ever since sentences started to circulate in brains devoted to reflection, an effort at total identification has been made, because with the aid of a copula each sentence ties one thing to another; all things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.
But the copula of terms is no less irritating than the copulation of bodies. And when I scream I AM THE SUN an integral erection results, because the verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.
Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime.”

Georges Bataille book The Solar Anus

The Solar Anus (1927)

Life, World, Effort, Water

“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Away

Memory

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Love, Hate, Health, Dependency

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

17 min 40 sec
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]

War, Fear, Thinking, Personality

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

War

“Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Men, Failure, Knowledge, Science

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

World, Suicide

“I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

People

“I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real." -Gregori
"Stuff? Four years of giving sermons, and that what I get back? Holy stuff?”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Vampire Mine

Feeling, Imagination

“Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Parting

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

People

“That's weak! You don't know what caring is… Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

Love, Hell, Fight, Relationship

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

World, Victory

“Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Family

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator

Knowledge

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Problem

“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

People

“No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

Way

“Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: Goodnight Tweetheart

“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Feeling, Sense, Personality

“That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Life, Feeling, Waiting

“Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: Bite Me

Reading

“An evil light sparked in his eyes. "You could always go for Plan B."

"Pound everyone to a bloody pulp until they shut up and cooperate?"

"Exactly."

-Curran and Kate”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

Light, Evil

“It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Bayou Moon

Idea, Wolf, Housing, Dependency

“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Heart

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Thinking, Heart

“He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Books, Feeling, Reading

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”

David Suzuki (1936) Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

Cars

“But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Thinking, Reading

“If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

World, Motivation, Waiting

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Decision, Chance, Forgetting

“Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Sense

“Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!”

Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Spring, Winter

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

People, World, Suffering, Personality

“Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Housing

“Everyone will think I'm ugly."
Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

World, Smile, Beauty, Thinking

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

People, Thinking

“Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!”

Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) French writer

Time

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

Alan Dean Foster (1946) American fiction writer

Feeling

“Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana

Love, Tear, Hurt

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Smile

“I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Hate

“… Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Time, Hurt

“Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”

Karin Slaughter book Fractured

Source: Fractured

Stupidity

“There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.”
“But I,” said Clary, “actually am.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, Thinking

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Game, Sport, Universe

“You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

God

“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”

Mary Doria Russell Children of God

Source: Children of God

Soul

“Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.

It's really not even fair to everyone else.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Imagination

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Love, Hell, Fraud, Personality

“There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.”

Tove Jansson book Moominvalley in November

Source: Moominvalley in November

Home, Change, Time

“Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime, everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths…..

- Iggy”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Nature, Bird, Bee

“We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Rising

Smile, Way, Wolf

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Men, Sex, Way, Guy

“… the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Life

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Effort, Strong

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”

Mary Doria Russell Children of God

Source: Children of God

God, Happiness, World, Change

“I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

World, Learning, Parting

“In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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