Quotes about everyone
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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

"Melancholy Objects", p. 57
On Photography (1977)

“Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.”

Terry Goodkind Chainfire

Source: Chainfire

People, Effort

“Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Hope

“She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.”

“Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers.

'No.'

'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?'

'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Color, Kiss

“Everyone,” she continues, looking around at all of us, “has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.”

Meg Wolitzer (1959) American writer

Source: Belzhar

Way

“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Night

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”

John Barth (1930) American writer

Life

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Personality

“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: Perfect

“We're the same! Even Sonya says we are.
We've always been the same, and we're
both acting the same stupid way now! We
hold ourselves to higher standards than
everyone else.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Stupidity, Way

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

Fight

“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss and Plutarch Heavensbee (p. 379)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: “Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?” I ask.
“Oh, not now. Now we’re in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated,” he says. “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
“What?” I ask.
“The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that.“

Stupidity, Thinking, Memory

“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Ii isn’t thet if you become Hokage, everyone will acknowldege you. It’s the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The Christmas Sweater

Love, Feeling

“Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Passion

Love, Death, Thinking

“Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.
- Foaly”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Opal Deception

“Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Knowledge, Reality

“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Defeat

Victory

“Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

Princess

“Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

“I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Parent

“I told you, everyone understands a quest.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Understanding

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Secret, World

“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”

George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)

Teachers

“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588

War

“When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

“He has ''. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' '. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

School, Heart

“After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Fate

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

On the Strength of a Likeness.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

Madness

“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”

Steven Erikson book Dust of Dreams

Source: Dust of Dreams

War, Truth, World

“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

Happiness, Thinking, Singing

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

Alex Garland book The Beach

Source: The Beach

Life, World, Thinking, Fish

“You don’t like people who have money, do you? (Astrid)
I’m not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Money, Hate, People, Princess

“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

Richard Matheson book A Stir of Echoes

Source: A Stir of Echoes

World

“Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.”

Mark Polish (1970) American film actor, screenwriter and producer

Love, People

“He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Lord of the Vampires

“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Time, Hurt

“To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

Love, Understanding, Thinking, Christ

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Dreams

“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

As quoted in "Even I want to be Cary Grant" by John Preston in The Telegraph (6 March 2005)]

“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all.
I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Color, Way

“I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

Reality, Personality

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Love, Life, Sense, Sleep

“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Happiness, Happy

“Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Source: The Shadow of the Bear

Life

“Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

Danielle Steel book The Gift

Source: The Gift

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…

Life, People, Soul, Thinking

“Life… is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Life

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Truth, Thinking

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Life, Way

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Life, World, Beauty

“I'm weird.
Everyone says so.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Happiness, People, Sadness, Idea

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Source: Pegasus

“Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.”

Stephen Sommers (1962) American film director

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

People, World

“Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.”

Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) Austrian writer

Source: Selected Short Fiction

Death, Understanding, Dead

“He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

God, Time

“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous, everyone hasn't met me yet.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Quoted in Bob Fenster, Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros (2005), p. 37
Variant: I told my psychiatrist everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous; everyone hasn't met me yet.

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