“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Quotes about everything page 18
“there is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out.”
Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
“Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.”
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) American children's writer and editor
“I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.”
Agatha Christie book Peril at End House
Hercule Poirot
Peril at End House (1932)
Context: I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around — seeking always something that is not very nice.
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist
“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”
Romain Gary book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Variant: You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.
Source: Paradise
“From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
William Godwin (1756–1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Context: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. … Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
“When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.”
Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Baby Proof
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Paulo Coelho book Brida
Variant: When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Source: Brida
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer
Source: Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair
"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)
“If everything is important, then nothing is.”
Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”
Salman Rushdie book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
Upton Sinclair book The Jungle
Source: The Jungle
“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist
Source: Vampire Knight, Vol. 2
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Variant: Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“Everything is as it should be.”
Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
“I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Animal Instincts
“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Variant: If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”
Lois Lowry book Number the Stars
Variant: it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Source: Number the Stars
“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
Herbert M. Shelton (1895–1985) American medical writer
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Secret
“People always try to do the right thing.. after they've tried everything else.”
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Source: Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. by Alexander Pope, Esq; And Dean Swift. in One Volume. Viz. the Strange and Deplorable Frensy of Mr. John Dennis. ... Epitaph on Francis Ch-Is. Soldier and Scholar. with Several More Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems.
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Variant: Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
