Quotes about everyone

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Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Source: The Alchemist

Source: The Great Gatsby

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Source: Trapped

Source: The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: The Princess Diarist

Source: White Night

Source: Her Royal Spyness

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Source: The Choice

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore. (p. 189)

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Source: NW

Source: Summer Secrets

Source: Angelology

Source: City of Bones

Lews Therin Telamon
(9 November 2000)
Source: Winter's Heart

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

No Place to Hide (2014)
Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Context: Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name. [... ] Conversely, the presumption is that the government, with rare exceptions, will not know anything that law-abiding citizens are doing. [... ] Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 209.

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Source: Charmed Thirds

Variant: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: Little Women

Source: Suicide Notes

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: The Interestings

From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.

Source: West with the Night

Source: Specials

Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 34

Source: Handle with Care

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: The Notebook

Source: The Lovely Bones

Source: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction

Source: Clockwork Princess

Source: Saving Francesca

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Source: Gone Girl

Source: Goliath

Source: City of Bones

Source: The Devil Wears Prada

Variant trans: Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
Ch. 18
Variant: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are
Source: The Prince (1513)
Context: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

Source: Terminal

Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Source: The Lover

Variant: Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Source: The Power of One

Source: Heist Society

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Source: The Best of Me

Source: Anna Karenina

Source: Hard Eight

Source: Bruiser

Source: The Last Song

Source: The Storyteller

Source: The Apostle

If This Is a Man (1947)
Context: Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition, which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from our misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable.

Source: Every You, Every Me

Source: Handle with Care

Source: Postcards from the Edge

Maia to Simon, pg. 50
Variant: A werewolf. Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel

Source: Rot & Ruin

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: Lady Midnight

Source: Bloodsucking Fiends