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Everything Quotes (page 99)

Anne Frank quote: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly..."
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank
But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? Elizabeth Gilbert
She stood, in a room of crumbling plaster, pressed to the window-pane, looking up at the unattainable form of everything she loved. She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. Ayn Rand
But -- my dear, my heart is BROKEN! I have seen the perfect Peter Wimsey. Height, voice, charm, smile, manner, outline of features, everything -- and he is -- THE CHAPLAIN OF BALLIOL!! What is the use of anything? ...I am absolutely shattered by this Balliol business. Such waste -- why couldn't he have been an actor? Dorothy L. Sayers
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power. Joan D. Vinge
She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. Flannery O'Connor
She'd run her life according to the Prophecies and now there were no more Prophecies. She must be feeling like a train which had reached the end of the line but still had to keep going, somehow. From now on she'd be able to go through life with everything coming as a surprise, just like everyone else. What luck. Neil Gaiman
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything..."
We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived. Jerzy Kosinski
To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it. No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple. Sri Chinmoy
Do you know, Watson, said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power. Anne Rice
E. E. Cummings quote: "I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the..."
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky. E. E. Cummings
Tobias Wolff quote: "He did not remember when everything began to remind him of..."
He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. Tobias Wolff
Isak Dinesen quote: "The cure for everything is saltwater. Tears, sweat and the sea."
The cure for everything is saltwater. Tears, sweat and the sea. Isak Dinesen
Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation. Georges Bataille

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