Quotes about everyone
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

Secret, Way

“How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Hope

“I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
“It’s not spin the bottle, Simon,” said Clary. “It’s just food. Not that you’re food, Alec,” she added when he glared. She held her hands up. “Never mind.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Food

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Way, Personality

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Feeling, Home, Thinking, Time

““From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?” “Then,” said Yossarian, “I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?””

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

Smile, Fools, Way, Feeling

“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

Source: Attempting Normal

Time, Personality

“Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

As quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London (1975), and Rebecca West : A Life (1987) by Victoria Glendinning, p. xi

People

“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

Iris Murdoch book The Red and the Green

The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.

Thinking

“I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Family, Law, Thinking

“If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Perfection

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Love, Hate, Art, Thinking

“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

Time

“I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Life, Problem, Parting

“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Justice

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Source: What Is the What

Love

“But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

World

“Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.”

Kevyn Aucoin (1962–2002) American make-up artist and photographer

Angels, Light

“Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.”

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

Source: The Lost Colony

Sense

“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Every Last One

Change

“He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Knowledge, Forgetting

“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”

Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Holiday

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

Life, Death

“While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.”

Zadie Smith book NW

Source: NW

“No Utopia is Utopia for everyone”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Hidden

Source: Among the Hidden

People

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Smile, Feeling

“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.”

Louise Penny book Still Life

Source: Still Life

Way

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Love, Clothes

“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Faith, Justice, Way, Nature

“Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

God

“You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her…”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Smile, Beauty, Clothes

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

Chance

“It's the idea that everyone has one and just one soulmate in the world, and that if you find them, you recognize them immediately.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

World, Idea

“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fury

Truth, Lie, Heart

“Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Love

“A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Death, Communication

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

Love, Courage, Personality

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

Life, Understanding, Dead

“Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Life, Feeling, Search

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Love, Hate, Personality

“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference

“Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, People, Thinking

“Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly.
"Everyone, follow Lassie. Timmy's in the well.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: No Mercy

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

Peace, Thinking, Sleep, Night

“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Love Poems

Bird

“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love, Personality

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

Happiness, Family, Peace, Smile

“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”

Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues

Source: Stone Butch Blues

World, Thinking

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Feeling, Heart

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Heart

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

Lee Child book The Affair

Source: The Affair

“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Sleep, Night

“It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Girl Stays in the Picture

Personality

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

World

“Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World

“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.

History, Learning

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”

Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Books, Reading

“Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Lie, World, Way, Soul

“Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

Waiting

“Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance."
"Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.”

Christine Feehan book Night Game

Source: Night Game

Love, Women, Boy

“Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else's books and letting it drive you insane?
-Jonas”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Mercury's War

Books, Law, Guy

“They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that.
But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Way

“He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets.”
“Yeah,” Jace said, “he‘s terrified I‘ll tell everyone that he‘s always really wanted to be a ballerina.”
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.
Source: City of Ashes

Secret

“But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

Life, Boy

“Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 31

Pain, Feeling, Dead, Forgetting

“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Life, People

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”

Sidney Sheldon book Bloodline

Source: Bloodline

Hunger, Understanding

“Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.”

Michael Pollan book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Food

“Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: A Secret Affair

Flowers, Heart

“Everyone has secrets.
Especially me.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Secret

“Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Death

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Love

“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“A beggar’s mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king’s mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye

TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)

Stupidity, Suffering

“How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: The Starlight Crystal

Life, Dead

“One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

Susan Howatch (1940) British writer

“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 100 Selected Poems

Love, Spring, Flowers

“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

Edwidge Danticat book Brother, I'm Dying

Source: Brother, I'm Dying

Family

“Why couldn’t they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?”

Anne Bishop book Vision in Silver

Source: Vision in Silver

Money

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Life, Forgetting

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Peace Is Every Step : The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (1992) Bantam reissue
Source: Being Peace
Context: If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

Life, Happiness, Peace, Smile