Anything Quotes (page 186)

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• having
• boasting
• cans

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. John Steinbeck

• thoughts
• joy
• time

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? Friedrich Nietzsche

• life
• learning
• school

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it. Nicholas Sparks

• life
• intelligent
• my man

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• look
• technology
• people

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our... Cory Doctorow

• life
• lost
• evening

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. Dick Francis

• liking
• likely
• magnetism

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie Janet Evanovich

• over
• used
• using

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Elaine Dundy

• happy
• heart
• hearts

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• intelligent
• manly
• hard

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• hard
• best
• thinking

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. Richard P. Feynman

• him
• ungrateful
• naming

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. Robert M. Pirsig

• time
• wishes
• charming

Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though. Tom Robbins

• life
• missing
• people

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point. George Carlin

• busy
• feeling
• life

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity. Giacomo Casanova