Quotes about everyone
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“Everyone's broken, one way or another.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Way

“Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 12

“Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Time

“The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”

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

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Family

“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”

Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author

Books, Thinking, Reading

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

Malorie Blackman book Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

People

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Madness

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.”

Martin Heidegger book Being and Time

Stambaugh translation
Source: Being and Time (1927)

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”

Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator

Source: Why Marx Was Right

“By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.”

James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer

Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“I was a heartless, ungrateful wench of a girl who promised everyone who came into contact with me a one-way ticket to pain and hurt. I didn’t know how to love and I didn’t deserve to be loved back.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Love, Pain, Way, Girl

“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Soul

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Suffering, Betrayal

“It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Passion, Dead

“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Love, Women, Men, People

“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Decision

“I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.”

Sara Shepard book Flawless

Source: Flawless

Feeling

“Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Thinking

“I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Dreams, Feeling, Thinking

“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.”

Philip Pullman book Clockwork

Source: Clockwork

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: The Candymakers

Fight

“She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

Source: By a Spider's Thread

Life, Girl, Strong

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Life, Time

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Life, Lying, Birthday, Thinking

“Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Kiss

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

Love, Life, Fear, Way

“Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.”

Max Allan Collins (1948) writer

Source: Jump Cut

Help

“Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.”

Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer

Source: Nobody's Princess

Love, Beauty

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Thinking

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Light

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Thinking

“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

Help

“Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.”

Hamza Yusuf (1958) American Islamic scholar

Faith

“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”

Gregg Olsen (1959) American writer

Source: Envy

Truth, World

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Love, World

“He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Butcher Bird

Fear

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Other works
Variant: Father, Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.

People

“There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place, a warm person. It exists, I know it does”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Love, Happiness, Smile, Home

“I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

Love, Boy, Madness

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

People, Time, Loneliness

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Time

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Feeling, Heart, Hurt

“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen… A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Personality

“Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all.

~Ruby, pg 38”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.”

Neil Strauss book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Learning, Change, Past

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Beauty, Sleep, Dead

“You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Sex, Lies and Vampires

Thinking, Change

“Don't make everyone know about your sadness.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Sadness

“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

Matthew Scully (1959) American political writer and speechwriter

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love, Problem

“Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Everyone is in pain. No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Pain, Thinking

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Way, Time, Personality

“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Truth, Thinking

“He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

Pain, People, Anger

“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Question, Evil

“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Fear

“Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.”

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

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Forgiveness, Joy

“I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Women, Time, Cry

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Fear, Law

“Have you called the alphas?"

"Yes."

"The rats, too?"

He bristled. "What about the rats?"

"They think you're hiding information from them"

"I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Thinking

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Beauty, Wise, Deep, Inspirational

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Variant: Better never means better for everyone.
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 32 (p. 211)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better.
Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better?
Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

“Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are."
"Land mines?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Learning

“A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

Margaret Atwood book Dancing Girls

Source: Dancing Girls

Thinking

“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Lie, Understanding

“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: The Trouble with Kings

“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”

Michael Ondaatje book In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”

Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer

People, Decision

“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Love, Help

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Thinking

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

People, Personality

“Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Nature, Dependency

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Variant: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

Fate, Dreams, Hope, Change

“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

People