Everything Quotes

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once"

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it"

"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Everything that gets born dies"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything"

Shannon Hoon, Musician

"To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television"

Chris Burke, Actor

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"Question everything"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"I wish I could score everything for horns"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"

William Cowper, Poet

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