Top 100 Everyone Thinks Quotes
#1. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. Do you stick with the position you've mastered? Or do you push yourself to master the position that seems out of reach? Do you listen to what everyone else thinks is best for you? Or do you listen to your own voice? Do you settle? Or do you dream?
Reggie Love
#3. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#4. I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.
Paz De La Huerta
#5. God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably ... I am actually a male!
Ray Toro
#6. Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
Margaret Atwood
#7. When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
Gary Lineker
#8. And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.
Claire Hennessy
#9. I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley
House
#11. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.
Zainab T. Khan
#12. Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.
Marcia Gay Harden
#13. A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.
Agatha Christie
#14. Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.
Jo Brand
#16. Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.
Michael Robotham
#17. What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
Danny Ozark
#18. The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?
Ray Winstone
#19. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.
Seanan McGuire
#20. Everyone thinks at some time or other that in a hundred years no one now alive will be on earth - the overwhelming force will sweep the place clean.
Philip Roth
#21. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Criss Jami
#22. Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.
Peg Bracken
#23. Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#24. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
Garret Dillahunt
#25. Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.
Gloria Steinem
#27. It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.
Jeff Lindsay
#28. Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.
Jacinto Benavente
#29. When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.
Cassandra Clare
#30. I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.
Cassie Scerbo
#31. People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'
Linda Thompson
#32. Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
#33. It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
Roman Coppola
#34. Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.
Jennifer Ellison
#35. That's fine until Ethan's sitting in his room waiting for his nightly booty call. When you're a no-show, and he thinks that we're out on the town, he's going to think something happened to us and get everyone all freaked out.
Samantha Chase
#36. Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
Helen Thomas
#37. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#38. I feel sorry for the man who marries you ... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey
#39. I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
Samuel Larsen
#40. Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing.
G.G. Renee Hill
#41. As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
Jane Green
#42. When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#43. I know what it's like to not fit in. Everyone thinks you're strange because you like to be alone, when really you just don't know how to say hello," Meryn whispered to the tiny creature. He looked up, surprised, and nodded.
Alanea Alder
#44. When something is as fundamental as trust the danger is that everyone thinks they understand what it is and therefore fail to define it.
David Amerland
#45. Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.
James Ellroy
#46. Imagine a group of people all staring at writing on a wall, everyone congratulating one another on reading the words correctly. But behind that group is a mirror whose image shows the writing's true message. No one looks at the mirror. No one thinks it's necessary.
Anonymous
#47. So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid."
"Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Thanks!
Melina Marchetta
#48. He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
George Herbert
#49. Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?
Vitas Gerulaitis
#50. If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.
Jim Rogers
#52. You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy
Maya Banks
#53. Everyone always thinks of ghosts as being invisible or like air but they take up so much space in a room, you've no idea.
Jami Attenberg
#54. It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Franz Grillparzer
#55. And thus I wonder about so many gay men I've met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?
Paul Monette
#56. Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
Raza Jaffrey
#57. In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.
Debra Ginsberg
#58. High school's actually kind of boring. It's a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there's a lot more under the surface.
Kiersten White
#59. Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
Beth Kanter
#60. I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.
Picabo Street
#61. That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.
Evelyn E. Smith
#62. Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
Arnold Palmer
#63. Privacy is everyone's given right, and the problem with the world today is the fact that everyone thinks they have a right to it, too.
Karina Halle
#64. Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are female. It's basic instinct to protect their own womb. You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male." "Except
Mindy McGinnis
#65. Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. "Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?"
Jayne shrugged and replied, "Because that's where he likes to hang out?
Nonjon
#66. A prosperous nation is eager to learn new things daily but a dying nation is full of pride everyone thinks he/she knows it all.
Euginia Herlihy
#67. You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way.
Scott Westerfeld
#68. When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Vernon Howard
#69. I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.
Seth Gabel
#70. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.
Anne Frank
#71. I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.
Jamie Bell
#72. I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.
Chuck Darby
#73. This he thinks is the secret to New York City's vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness.
Chris Pavone
#74. That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.
Michael Shurtleff
#75. Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.
Gayle Forman
#76. Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
R. Scott Bakker
#77. Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.
Michael Shurtleff
#79. All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
Helen Mirren
#80. Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
Ruth Beechick
#81. I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be
Chris Kurtz
#82. Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
Marjane Satrapi
#83. If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
Natalie Portman
#84. Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.
Marlon Wayans
#85. Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
Roxane Gay
#86. No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates
#87. Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
Brendan O'Carroll
#88. The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.
Ben Falcone
#89. We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should.
Scott Westerfeld
#90. I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
Mike Tyson
#91. The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
Brian Tracy
#92. To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.
Erin Andrews
#93. I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Jeffrey Tate
#94. Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!
Black Francis
#96. I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.
Paul Hogan
#97. It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
Amelia Warner
#98. People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
Mark Thomas
#99. I've only been in one fight in my whole life ... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
Ray Liotta
#100. Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Patti Smith
