Quotes about everything

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“Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”

“Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.”

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

“How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?”

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

“Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”
“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.”

“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

“He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax…”

“Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”

“I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.”

“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

“Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.”

“A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.”

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

“Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.”

“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

“Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.”

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

“His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.”

“…History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”

“Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”

“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

“And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”

“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”

“The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.”

“Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.”

“The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.”

“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.”

“We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland”

“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”

“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.”

“Give me everything you have," I told [Preston].
"Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.”

“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.”

“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

“… there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them…”

“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”

“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”

“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.”

“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”

“You don't get everything all at once. You wait.”

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.”

“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”

“At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.”

“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

“The fact thatis the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?”

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."”

“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.”

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”

“… You're omniscient, right?"
"For the most part, yes."
"Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?"
He shrugged. "That's easy enough."
"Then tell me."
"The letter G.”

“Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.”

“… for everything has a trace of the divine in it.”

“Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”

“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.”

“Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.”

“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”

“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”

“Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?”

“Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.”

“Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”

“The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

“Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.”

“Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”

“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”

“For Gat with everything, everything. Cady”

“And how does God speak to you?"
"In the language of everything that is beautiful.”

“I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just
disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my life.
Vanished, like magic.”

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them… to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”