Everything Quotes (page 154)

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• manly
• choose
• costly

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. Aristotle

• enjoyment
• make
• enjoyable

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment. Leo Tolstoy

• good
• parents
• red

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college, Woody Allen

• sister
• growing up
• she

She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said. And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same. Ann Patchett

• framed
• wall
• moments

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is... Margaret Atwood

• fashion
• believe
• game

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that. Craig Ferguson

• watch
• manly
• believe

I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them. Margaret Atwood

• struggle
• reasons
• struggles

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. Samuel Beckett

• rain
• wronged
• bedrooms

It rains in your bedroom/everything is wrong/it rains when you're here/and it rains when you're gone! Taylor Swift

• reality
• continuously
• precisely

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard. Julio Cortazar

• walk away
• pretty
• angel

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. Chuck Palahniuk

• love
• look
• looking back

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

• training
• world
• train

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice. Ann Patchett

• mindfulness
• making memories
• memories

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. Henry Hazlitt

• powerful
• power
• free

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn