Top 100 Anyhow Quotes
#1. Cripes, I can't keep up on this political correct shit. I don't even know what to call myself. One minute I'm black. Then I'm African American. Then I'm a person of color. Who the hell makes these rules up, anyhow?
Janet Evanovich
#2. We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
Chief Joseph
#3. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
#4. When in doubt - reconnoitre. It doesn't do the damnedest bit of good but it gives you time to think, and anyhow French words look and sound splendid in all military contexts.
Berkley Mather
#5. Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi
#7. I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
Campbell Scott
#8. I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
Georges Braque
#9. Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. I don't care if she [Ms. Whitlock] knows I love Breanna. Besides, the lady hates me and probably won't read it anyhow.
Katie McGarry
#11. If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don't worry about it. I'm not really anxious about it. One can keep Christmas as a Christian even in prison - more easily than family occasions, anyhow.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#12. I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.
Joe Haldeman
#14. Anyway, this time I caught her in the slow stirring of biscuits, her mind on other things, but anyhow, she was distracted enough, I was determined enough,this time I got just what I wanted. Permission to play at the Palace.
Karen Hesse
#15. I was determined to be both pretty and fierce, as Mother had said I could be. Just because I was interested in a man's job didn't mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow? "Truly,
Kerri Maniscalco
#16. Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
H.G.Wells
#18. What do news services get rated on anyhow, how many times they can use the word fear?
Teri Louise Kelly
#19. You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.
Walter Russell
#20. When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow.
Don Rickles
#21. There is very little truth in the old refrain that one cannot legislate equality. Laws not only provide concrete benefits, they can even change the hearts of men - some men, anyhow - for good or evil.
Gilbert King
#22. Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
Edward Abbey
#23. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#25. Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.
Sharyn McCrumb
#26. I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
Shunroku Hata
#27. When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.
Susan Hayward
#28. The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth."
"That's mining," said the Drip. "There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was conscripted to work in mines. Anyhow, all young people were known as miners at one period.
Theodore Sturgeon
#29. Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
Mark Twain
#30. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.
Edward Carpenter
#31. There's nothing on reality right now but reruns anyhow.
Jay Bederwehl
#32. - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do ... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
Robert Browning
#34. I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
Siegfried Sassoon
#35. Santayana ... reasoned that the young men who were being killed in the war would die anyhow sooner or later, and would be good for nothing while they lived.
Bertrand Russell
#36. Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
-But he'd crawl back.
Duck him again; and keep ducking him.
-Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though - yes, and drown you - what then?
Herman Melville
#37. What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.
Robert Nathan
#38. Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?
Margaret Mahy
#39. I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
Keith Ablow
#40. On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case ...
Mother Teresa
#41. Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men - at least he always did when he was a kid - because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
Russell Banks
#42. Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.
Ann H. Gabhart
#43. I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
Ernie Pyle
#44. We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyhow.
Leigh Bardugo
#45. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.
George Bernard Shaw
#47. Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
#48. It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.
Anna Funder
#50. Anyhow, she thought, they are aware of each other; they live in each other; what else is love, she asked, listening to their laughter.
Virginia Woolf
#51. Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
Anne Frank
#52. What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.
Chuck Mangione
#53. There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.
Iris Murdoch
#54. Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime when it is light anyhow.
P. E. Cleator
#55. As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.
Garth Nix
#56. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#57. Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#58. And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. That, anyhow, is what I've tried to keep before myself. What you do on the earth, the earth makes permanent.
Wendell Berry
#59. Anyhow, we've decided on the experiment and goodness only knows what will come of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#60. What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
John Muir
#61. It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
Sophocles
#62. Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
George Santayana
#63. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.
Bram Stoker
#64. I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.
Robert Sheckley
#65. Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.
Ogden Nash
#66. Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
Josh Billings
#67. I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.
Eleanor H. Porter
#68. This was a smokescreen. Morrie made that obvious. Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
Anonymous
#69. Alan:I used rabbit-skin glue to size the panels. I got it from the art
shop. I don't know if they use real rabbits in it. It seems kind of a
shame if they do, but then it's not like there's a rabbit shortage, is
it? And maybe they only used rabbits that would've died anyhow.
J.L. Merrow
#70. LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
Langston Hughes
#71. A writer writes
regardless ...
even though ...
notwithstanding ...
despite ...
at any rate ...
anyhow ...
nevertheless ...
in the face of ...
undeterred by ...
heedless of ...
and because.
The true writer simply continues to write.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#72. He wanted them both, but there was no having everything, and love couldn't help him now. Nothing could help him but bravery, and what was that anyhow?
Paula McLain
#73. Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence, or words like that. Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow.
Jack Kerouac
#74. The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Christopher Morley
#75. People are lot like peanuts...
It's not what's on the outside that matters, and that damn shell just gets shucked into the trash anyhow.
Alan VanMeter
#76. Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow ...
Yunus Emre
#77. I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.
Suman Pokhrel
#78. How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?
Steven Wright
#79. Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T.E. Lawrence
#80. Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.
Iggy Azalea
#81. It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.
B. Traven
#83. If I know Mom,' she said, 'she'd have refused any surgery anyhow.'
'It's true,' Amanda said. 'Her advance directive basically asked us to put her out on an ice floe if she developed so much as a hangnail.
Anne Tyler
#85. It's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
Nikolai Gogol
#86. Most men of business think Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.
Walter Bagehot
#87. I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.
Teresa R. Funke
#88. Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
Alison Bechdel
#89. Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.
Ken Andersen
#90. She wasn't all that into guys anyhow, she kept telling herself. It's just there were so goddamn many of them.
Robert Dunbar
#91. Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!
Gelett Burgess
#92. The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
#93. I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
Mark Twain
#94. The point is that we all caught. And we try in one way or another to widen ourself free. For instance, me and Ludie. When I was with Ludie, I didn't feel so caught. But then Ludie died. We go around trying one thing or another, but we caught anyhow.
Carson McCullers
#95. Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
John Wayne
#96. Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.
Frank Sinatra
#97. I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
Gelett Burgess
#98. I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
Dustin Hoffman
#99. I always thought that really beautiful people were kind of like stuffed animals, like they sat in corners and didn't say much of anything, because people loved them anyhow. But Jeremy was actually funny.
Alison Umminger
#100. Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that's another story.
Gregory Cochran
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