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Everything Else Quotes (page 5)

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us. Witold Gombrowicz
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation. Bertrand Russell
Bernadette Devlin quote: "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to..."
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. Socrates
Haruki Murakami quote: "Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else."
Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else. Haruki Murakami
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? Lou Reed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in..."
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Henry Miller quote: "Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. ..."
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. Henry Miller
Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What purpose, man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason, yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind! Salman Rushdie
Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. Stephenie Meyer
Wilkie Collins quote: "My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die...."
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. Wilkie Collins
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
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Nick Hornby
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is. Oh, I have always known that so well! Everything else is part of the game, an enrichment of one's life; in every other form of suffering one can feel such extraordinary self-satisfaction, one can cut such a fine figure. Only when one has fallen out with oneself and no longer suffers with a good conscience, only in the throes of stricken vanity - only... Thomas Mann

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