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Quotes About Everything

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
~ E. F. Schumacher
What does FEAR stand for? 1. False Evidence Appearing Real 2. Finding Excuses And Reasons 3. Failure Expected And Received 4. Forget Everything And Run
~ Terry Felber
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
~ Thomas Carlyle
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
~ Annie Dillard
I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?
~ Nick Manning
You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves.
~ Nora Roberts
Without an objective standard of meaning and morality, then life is meaningless and there's nothing absolutely right or wrong. Everything is merely a matter of opinion.
~ Norman L. Geisler
I sometimes think I should have titled this book 'Aristotle: The Genius Who Was Wrong About Fucking Everything'.
~ Chuck Klosterman
My job is to notice the details. To be an impartial witness. Everything is always research. My job isn't to feel anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The World-Soul is sick, Harry, crazy-sick. And if we don't each do our part and try to get to the root of its pain and burn it out, then everything is for nothing.
~ Clive Barker
I can't help it if I understand that everything tends to ruin. Over our heads, Skylab is eternally falling down, I can see it all, the debris raining without cessation. I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.
~ Colson Whitehead
To explain everything as the result of a single factor which, moreover, is fixed by fate, has a great advantage. For then no task seems to be assigned to one; one has nothing to do but wait for the imaginary moment when the curing of this one factor will cure everything else.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I love you, Mira…my Mate. My life. You're my everything.
~ Lara Adrian
It's about nothing, everything else is about something; this, it's about nothing.
~ Larry David
The best conversationalists are curious about everything. That's why they are good at listening and why they have broad horizons—they're always learning something new.
~ Larry King
And I understood that everything that used to be beautiful about Eden was perhaps hideous.
~ Lars von Trier
Art is the seeker and the sought, The dreamer and the dream, The traveler and the destination; Art is everything.
~ Laura Jaworski
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne
And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.
~ Charles Benoit
Bobby Kennedy chose the members of the squad himself. He gave the squad a very limited job to do and gave the squad a very subtle name: "The Get Hoffa Squad." Everything, and I mean everything, came as a result of that.
~ Charles Brandt
I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along!
~ Charles Dickens
Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,
~ Charles Dickens