Anything They Quotes

#1. The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#3. I don't know much about psychoanalysis, but I don't believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

Anne Blankman

#4. I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

Ramin Bahrani

#5. My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.

Thomas Kean Jr.

#6. Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.

Rita Rudner

#7. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Most of the smaller houses had been gobbled up by so-called general-interest publishers, most of them now owned in turn by much bigger conglomerates who'd publish anything they could get their hands on that had a chance of making money.

Jonathan Galassi

#9. You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#10. People hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

Melina Marchetta

#11. Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Jean Giraudoux

#12. Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Rudy Giuliani

#13. Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Philip Jose Farmer

#14. There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Matt Damon

#15. People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything ... they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#16. I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

Julie Delpy

#17. The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything. Why

Pierce Brown

#18. No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#19. Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.

Amanda Hudson

#20. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. The relic of the "why" of advertising seems to still persist: Since I, as the advertiser, am paying, you have to put up with whatever I dish out. But think of it this way: just because my date pays for my ticket or dinner, does that give them license to do anything they want? No.

Yoram Jerry Wind

#22. One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

Mike Krzyzewski

#23. Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

C.K. Webb

#24. People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

Marlon Brando

#25. Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Homer

#26. My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

Shaquille O'Neal

#27. I do think that film is closest of all to music. Notes and chords on their own don't mean anything. They only mean something when you juxtapose them with something else

Michael Koresky

#28. If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Terence Conran

#29. The Ephebians made wine out of anything they could put in a bucket, and ate anything that couldn't climb out of one.

Terry Pratchett

#30. The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Tennessee Williams

#32. Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

Michael Cera

#33. People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

Erik Weihenmayer

#34. They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with
what advantage do they see in democracy?

William Stafford

#36. People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

Celia Green

#37. I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought ...

Charles Manson

#38. I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

Grace Kelly

#39. I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

Mike Ditka

#40. One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.

Zig Ziglar

#41. You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Jacqueline Wilson

#42. I consider every person an enemy until he has proven himself differently, and I find that in knowing my enemies, I can prepare against anything they might send against me.

R.A. Salvatore

#43. Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#44. Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.

Vincent De Paul

#45. Why do you think people cheat?," I asked.
"Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

Sarah Mlynowski

#46. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.

Hans Fallada

#47. Readers should be open-minded to read anything they fancy regardless of the source. That way we can rid off the writing stereotyped by race or gender.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#48. Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

Matt Groening

#49. And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Patrick Suskind

#50. They certainly won't think she's been taken over by the devil. If anything, they're suspicious that the devil's taken a day off.

David Levithan

#51. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#52. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Douglas Adams

#53. This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Nikki Haley

#54. If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

Emma Goldman

#55. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

James Branch Cabell

#56. It would not have occurred to the dwarfs to give the young queen anything they had dug themselves from beneath the earth. That would have been too easy, too routine. It's the distance that makes a gift magical, so the dwarfs believed.

Neil Gaiman

#57. My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

Heath Ledger

#58. Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.

Roger Ailes

#59. I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

J.J. Abrams

#60. I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

Gordon Ramsay

#61. Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life. He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness.

Cormac McCarthy

#62. Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

J.M. Barrie

#63. The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

#64. There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.

Jeremy Davis

#65. Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

Colton Haynes

#66. Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They

Ford Madox Ford

#67. I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

John Le Carre

#68. They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been?

Helen Dunmore

#69. In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Vladimir Sorokin

#70. Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

Jim Babka

#71. I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Henry David Thoreau

#72. When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

Alexia Fast

#73. The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

Steve Chabot

#74. Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.

Jillian Michaels

#75. For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Adam McKay

#76. For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Malala Yousafzai

#77. The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

Alfred North Whitehead

#78. When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Jimi Hendrix

#79. Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Jack Ramsay

#80. It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. 'Love it or hate it.' There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.

Angela Kiss

#81. I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda ... anything. They've perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

Tom DeLonge

#82. You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Mahatma Gandhi

#83. The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.

Seymour Papert

#84. Prayers never bring anything ... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

W.C. Fields

#85. I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Gertrude Stein

#86. Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

Danah Boyd

#87. An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

Bob Proctor

#88. Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

George Reisman

#89. Who has ever deserved anything they've been given? Love isn't about deserving,cara mia. It's about giving. And accepting. And sharing. The most worthy heart is also the most courageous.

Siri Mitchell

#90. Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?

Ellie Lieberman

#91. The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.

Thomas Sowell

#92. For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#93. Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.

Jessica Biel

#94. As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

#95. See, I know what they think about me. That I'm some project. And, yeah, I'll accept their help. But I'm gonna pay my way. 'Cause you can't let people like that give you anything. They think they own you then. And you know what? Nobody's ever going to own me.

Kirsty Eagar

#96. If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

Rodney Brooks

#97. As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Except that stopping midsentence is the worst thing people can do. It's like, totally passive-aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which then they deny.

Sophie Kinsella

#99. Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

Anne Bernays

#100. Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Emile Zola