Quotes about everything
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“The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking

“We must stop the terror. I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Statements to reporters during an interview on a golf course (August 4, 2002); publicized in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Michael Moore, and also quoted at Common Ground (July 2004) http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0407156/fww.shtml <br class="br">2000s, 2002

“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Fear

“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Time

“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Heart

“People who understand everything get no stories.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

People, Understanding

“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Beauty, Flowers

“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

Terry Brooks The Wishsong of Shannara

Source: The Wishsong of Shannara

Stupidity

“There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 175

“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Music, Nature

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Hope

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books

“Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Truth

“Everything is a version of something else.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

“Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Truth, Imagination

“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Have His Carcase

Variant: Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Source: Have His Carcase (1932)

Thinking

“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”

Scott B. Smith book A Simple Plan

Source: A Simple Plan

“Everything government touches turns to crap.”

Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.”

Craig Clevenger Dermaphoria

Source: Dermaphoria

Angels, Universe

“There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.”

Dennis Lehane book Mystic River

Source: Mystic River

“There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

Time

“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Variant: FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
Source: Doctor Sleep

Fear

“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

World

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

Ma Jian (1953) Chinese writer

Source: Red Dust: A Path Through China

Waiting

“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Soul, Passion, Parting

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Tear, Universe, Parting, Personality

“I love everything about you that hurts.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Variant: I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.
Source: Closer

Love, Hurt

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Friendship, Learning, Dead

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and… it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Life, World, Help

“I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Sleep, Clothes

“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Dependency

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Death, Pain

“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”

Elena Ferrante book My Brilliant Friend

Source: My Brilliant Friend

Children, Night

“Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane

“There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.”

Ben Sherwood book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Time, Dead

“Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.”

Isabel Allende book Zorro

Source: Zorro

Life

“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Source: What Is the What

Parting

“Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Art

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Life

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Samuel R. Delany book Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

Change, Housing, Personality

“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Time, Help

“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Peace

“Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Love, Search, Mountain

“No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close."
I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen."
"Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus on Top

Time

“American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World”

Adam Gopnik book Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

World

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Love, Singing, Dance

“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Cars

“Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Source: Pegasus

Night

“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

Pleasure

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

Ann Richards (1933–2006) American politician

Earlier use in Frank and Ernest (c. 1982), by Bob Thaves, as the characters observe a billboard for a "Fred Astaire Film Festival: "Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything that he did… backwards and in high heels."
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Context: If you give us the chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels** Keynote address, 1988 Democratic National Convention

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