Quotes about everyone
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Max Barry photo

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

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Hiro Mashima photo

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

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 12

Cassandra Clare photo

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

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

Anne Lamott photo

“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

Alan Bennett photo
Malorie Blackman photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Martin Heidegger photo
Terry Eagleton photo

“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

James C. Collins photo

“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

Cassandra Clare photo

“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”

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Jane Austen photo
Mikhail Bulgakov photo
Napoleon Hill photo
Sara Shepard photo
William Goldman photo
Natalie Goldberg photo
Philip Pullman photo

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

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: The Candymakers

Laura Lippman photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Janet Evanovich photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Max Allan Collins photo

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

Max Allan Collins (1948) writer

Source: Jump Cut

Esther M. Friesner photo
Scott Westerfeld photo

“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

Jim Butcher photo
Hamza Yusuf photo
Leonard Cohen photo

“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

Rudyard Kipling photo

“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.

Cassandra Clare photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
John Steinbeck photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Neil Strauss photo

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

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

Nicholas Sparks photo
Anne Rice photo
John Steinbeck photo
Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Yasunari Kawabata photo
Charlaine Harris photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Swami Vivekananda photo

“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

Anne Lamott photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Margaret Atwood photo

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

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.

Rick Riordan photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Haruki Murakami photo

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

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

Brandon Sanderson photo

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

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: The Trouble with Kings

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
David Sedaris photo
Libba Bray photo

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

Source: Going Bovine

Richard Adams photo
Amy Tan photo

“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?”

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)

Nicholas Sparks photo
Gabrielle Zevin photo
Rick Riordan photo
Harold Bloom photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Katharine Hepburn photo
Andy Warhol photo

“In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

When asked about this quote, he would corrupt it intentionally, including:
1968 - 1974

Paulo Coelho photo
Michelle Tea photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Anne Lamott photo
Kelley Armstrong photo

“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Holly Black photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Haruki Murakami photo
Nicholas Sparks photo