Quotes about everything

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“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.”

“I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.”

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”

“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”

“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”

“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”

“… there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.”

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”

“… I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.”

“Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.”

“Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.”

“Adrian, we hashed this out! Everything's gone perfectly until now. Why would you even think about deviating from the plan?'

'Um, because that's how we roll?”

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”

“I’m just saying that I think I chose the way I did in part because of you. Since I’ve
met you, everything I’ve done has been in part because of you.”

“everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.”

“Having a friend made everything else suck less.”

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

“I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.”

“Catherine […] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

“I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.”

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

“Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay”

“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”

“Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.”

“Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.”

“Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.”

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”

“….. It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.”

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

“i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”

“It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”

“What are you? (Nick)
Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron)
Yeah. Duh. Not like you’re going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)”

“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”

“But the Silent Brothers have tried everything to separate Jace from the heavenly fire, and they can't do it. It's in his soul. So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”

“Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.”

“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”

“Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.”

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”

“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”

“Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.”

“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”

“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.”

“The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.”

“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”

“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”

“You only want everything you don't have"
Matt from The vampire diaries”

“Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.”

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure…. you are above everything distressing.”

“I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.”

“Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]”

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.”

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”

“Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.”

“… the worst aspect of our time is prejudice… In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.”

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”

“Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!”

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”

“Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.”

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

“Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.”

“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”

“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”

“Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.”

“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.”

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.”

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're notto understand her. That'swhat she's after…. She doesn't want you to understand. She knowsimpossible. She just wants you to understand. Everything else is negotiable.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”