Quotes about everyone
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“The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Men

“I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Tear, Cry

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

“As far as we know, everyone’s right—
Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs.”
Eddie became about one percent less tense.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Spring

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Love, Sleep

“Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.”

Soraya (1969–2006) Singer-songwriter

“Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said.
"Don't be ridiculous.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Time

“I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Past, Housing

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

Way, Problem

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

Anna Wintour (1949) English editor-in-chief of American Vogue

Understanding, Time

“But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Dreams, Question

“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

Men, Feeling, Appearance

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 113
Variant: I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)

People, Way, Memory

“For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Pain, Universe, Time, Indifference

“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

Barbara Marciniak (1928–2012)

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Truth

“For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.

Truth, Star, Time

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Way, Search, Learning

“Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Source: Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

Life, Happiness

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Life

“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Happiness, People, Understanding, Sense

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love

“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Love, People

“And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections (2001)
Context: All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool?

Truth, Sadness

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood (1987)

Books, Thinking, Reading

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows

Love, People, Fear, Feeling

“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Learning, Personality

“Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”

Francine Rivers book The Atonement Child

Source: The Atonement Child

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

World, Beauty, Hope, Soul

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. 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, Smile, Thinking

“Everyone needs a hobby,” he said. “And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

Life

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

Hilari Bell (1958) American writer

Source: Crown of Earth

Way

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time theto kill-though not theto kill.”

Agatha Christie Curtain

Source: Curtain

Time

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that”

Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer

Hope, Change, Reading

“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”

Ian Fleming book Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale

“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Hatori: "SHIGURE… I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD…"

Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Stupidity, World, Hope

“It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: It Chooses You

“…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

Love, Life, World, Help

“There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Love, Life, Lie, World

“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Beer

“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“Everyone loves something for nothing… even if it costs everything.”

Stephen King book Needful Things

Source: Needful Things

Love

“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”

Leon Uris (1924–2003) American novelist

Source: Qb VII

Home, Hell

“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

Love, Secret

“It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Time

“Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Hell, Princess

“I fool you. I fool everyone.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Fools

“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Source: Farewell Waltz

Happiness, People, Stupidity, Wine

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

World

“It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.”

Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road

Source: A Bend in the Road

Sadness

“Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Fear

“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”

Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer

Source: What Happened to Lani Garver

Angels

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Letter to Phyllis Wright (January 24, 1936), published in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children (Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 129
1930s

Law, Universe, Science

“Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: The Actor and the Housewife

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Family, Feeling, Family

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

People, Business

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

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

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Age, Family

“In the end, everyone loses everyone.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Attitude

“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) British writer

Source: My Miscellanies

People, Time, Reading

“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”

Mario Puzo book The Family

Source: The Family

Family, Loyalty

“everyone is dead and this is hell.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Hell, Dead

“The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Variant: End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home.
Source: Lover Reborn

Home, Dead

“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Evil

“His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Age, World, Question

“Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he’s a Navy SEAL: He hasn’t slept in days, he’s all hopped up on Red Bull, and he’s liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone “safe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Fear, Thinking, Effort

“Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.”

Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter

Nature

“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”

Troy Kennedy Martin (1932–2009) British screenwriter

“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Behavior, Hell

“If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Happiness

“After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

World

“Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

History, Parting

“Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Soul

“Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

War

“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

God, People, Stupidity, World

“Because that's what heaven is… it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.”

Justin Cronin book The Twelve

Source: The Twelve

Love, Housing

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Variant: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Source: Cat's Eye (1988)

Age

“… if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Life, God

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Time

“The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: At Last

“Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.”

Beverly Cleary (1916) American writer of children's books

Life, Problem

“God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace and the Bomb

“Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel.
“Sebastian says I can come with you.”
Jace raised his eyebrows.
“Matching haircuts for everyone?”
“I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile, Hope, Feeling

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Hate, Funny

“As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Variant: Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Truth, Books, Thinking, Reading

“If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Life

“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 23; translated by Luigi Ricci

Men, Truth, Way, Understanding