Top 100 Like The Rest Quotes
#1. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff
Dan Skinner
#2. What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us.
Allan Border
#3. Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
Charlotte Bronte
#4. I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
Mark Twain
#5. My mind was speaking, but my vocal cords were silent. I exhaled in frustration. "Freezed," I finally spouted out. My thoughts froze, just like the rest of me.
Anonymous
#6. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
George Mikes
#7. It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
John Steinbeck
#8. Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.
Hanya Yanagihara
#9. She was small-boned and exquisite, and naked like the rest of them, with nothing on her but a garland of flowers and a pink hair ribbon, frequent props on the sex-kiddie sites.
Margaret Atwood
#10. Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.
Charles Dickens
#11. And the one here in my hand isn't brown and shiny like the rest. It is flat and sleepy like the sand, which through my fingers I set rolling. Slowly, step by step, as if unwilling I let my feet wander on, ahead. (September 24, 1939) p. 7
Pearl Fichman
#12. Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
#13. As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.
William Golding
#14. Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
Victor Hugo
#15. Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.
Lord Byron
#16. A kid under a tablecloth insists he's a ghost. A table
underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us,
only pretending to be invisible.
Richard Siken
#17. You feel like you stopped living when he went missing. You feel like the rest of your days are killing time until it's time to die.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#18. Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
Melina Marchetta
#19. A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.
Anuj
#20. The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.
John J. Ratey
#21. You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time," she said. "Rich people are like the rest of us - two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.
Alexander McCall Smith
#22. There have always been people in American politics that wanted America to be more like the rest of the world. And In 2008, one of them was elected president of this country and the result has been a disaster.
Marco Rubio
#23. In deploring spin while also desiring it, Barack Obama is like the rest of us. We denounce spin when we see it as misleading. But we embrace spin when we see it as leading.
David Greenberg
#24. And forget all about the fact that my father is human and makes awful choices like the rest of us
Colleen Hoover
#25. O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
William Blake
#26. Beautiful. Crushingly so. You
look like the rest of my life.
Beau Taplin
#28. As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself
Eamon Grennan
#29. ADA Cher Reo was sleeping off a night of drunken revelry like the rest of them, so that would be handy.
J.D. Robb
#30. If we don't live in a way that is distinctive from our culture, then why not? If we are going to be satisfied with living our lives like the rest of the world and adding a weekly sermon and a small group Bible study on top, then what exactly are we up to in the church? Isn't there more? And
M. Scott Boren
#31. People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.
Mary Renault
#32. We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.
Paula Garner
#33. Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair.
David Baldacci
#34. Jack assumed they would be heading to the pub there in Century House. It was drab, like the rest of the building, but more important, it was vastly more secure than just venturing out to some alehouse on the street.
Tom Clancy
#35. I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#36. She had her scars just like the rest of us
Gina Holmes
#37. of film had come to me! "That way when you're discharged, you might still be of some use. Not like the rest of these," he waved his hand at the ward, "these useless eaters.
Jeanne Moran
#38. If you had the guts to serve your country like the rest of us, you wouldn't have to work so hard to prove you're crazy.
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#39. Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
George Will
#40. About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.
Claudia Gray
#41. They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."
Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.
Jennifer Egan
#42. The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.
Markus Zusak
#43. If you don't let me go, you won't feel quite so human anymore. Being human isn't about whether you fit in or look like the rest of us. It's about who you are and what you're willing to do or not do.
Susan Ee
#44. People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.
John Avery
#45. The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.
Mike Rogers
#46. Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
Pete Hamill
#47. Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful?
Miriam Toews
#48. So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?
Rachel E. Carter
#49. Poetry, when you saw me coming in your direction with a pen and my problems, why didn't you run and hide like the rest?
Delano Johnson
#50. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#51. In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#52. A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams
#53. Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.
P.C. Cast
#54. You need to think with your head, not only your heart."
He couldn't help but snort softly at that. "You think I'm using my heart right now?"
Brion rolled his eyes. "Yes. And in case there's any doubt, your heart is an idiot just like the rest of you ...
Morgan Rhodes
#55. Margot? Sad?" Chris picks at her nails. "Margot doesn't have normal human emotions like the rest of us.
Jenny Han
#56. Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
Robert Gottlieb
#57. I know you're picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn't decadent, no, it's rustic in the way only a rich person's place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they're just like the rest of us.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#58. Honor was a luxury item, like hair pomade and snuff. Its only purpose was to show the world that you could afford to be impractical, that you had enough money to behave in a way that was compatible with some ludicrous code instead of acting out of self-preservation like the rest of humanity.
Cat Sebastian
#59. Who was Col. Sussex? Just some guy who had to shit like the rest of us.
Charles Bukowski
#60. Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
Michael Hogan
#61. It's just an expensive eyesore announcing to the world that he's too hip to get his news online like the rest of the world," she reported dutifully. "How about you, Guy? Any trouble on the grounds?
Mira Grant
#63. Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.
Scott Adams
#64. Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.
Jonathan Falwell
#65. A prostitute is a decent worker like the rest of us, only she can't fake what she is doing.
M.F. Moonzajer
#66. King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
Mason Cooley
#67. If you want to be the best,
Work hardier than the rest.
If you don't want to be the best,
Just work like the rest.
Bob Stinson
#68. Even mushrooms respond to light - I suppose they blink their mushroomy little eyes, like the rest of us.
Anne Lamott
#69. Veturius is a Mask like the rest of us, yes. Bold, brave, strong, swift. But those were afterthoughts for him. Elias sees people as they should be, not as they are. He laughs at himself. He gives of himself - in everything he does. [...] He's the things that I can't be. He's good.
Sabaa Tahir
#70. The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.
Robert Wright
#71. I mean, wha comfort does pretendin to be a Buddhist or wharrever give him? What's wrong with pretendin to be a Catholic like the rest of us?
Trevor Byrne
#72. Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
Samuel Johnson
#73. They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.
Suzanne Collins
#74. But you are human, and just like the rest of us you have the potential to be both a devil and an angel. There's no such thing as an evil race, just a human race.
Cressida
Stuart Hill
#75. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
Herbert Marcuse
#76. Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.
Virginia Postrel
#77. Why must you look like the rest of us? Why do you have to be the one to change? Change the way we see. Don't change the way you are.
Tahereh Mafi
#78. Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.
Nancy Missler
#79. Wicked Abyss, page 279, Lila, Princess Calliope of Sylvan to Abyssian "Sian" Infernas, King of Pandemonia
"There's a face to the violence you love so much, a cost that the Morior never have to pay. Why wouldn't you love war? You never feel the toll like the rest of us.
Kresley Cole
#80. When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wrong from time to time, unless we're saints, which we aren't.
Alexander McCall Smith
#81. Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.
Gore Vidal
#82. I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.
Meredith Schorr
#83. I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
#84. That car, as with the rest of Mr. Mao's lifestyle, was brand new. He had gotten rich, and gotten rich quick. But like the rest of his generation of Chinese Jay Gatsbys, the source of his wealth was murky.
Michael Levy
#86. You've got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you're in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaster). How far are you willing to go? What are you willing to do about it?
Ryan Holiday
#87. Besides, criminal masterminds are people too. They need groceries and cable like the rest of us.
Wesley Chu
#88. I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.
Dan Price
#89. Do the time, energy, and passion with which I pursue my own interests match the intensity of my faith, obedience, and love for God and others? Is my life mysterious? Or do I live, love, and lust like the rest of the world?
Anonymous
#90. Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like the rest of us.
C.S. Lewis
#91. To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.
Lee Child
#92. If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
Mark Dayton
#93. Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Terry Eagleton
#94. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!
G.A. Aiken
#95. His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2.
Jim Butcher
#96. When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.
Blake Lively
#97. That you always need to look closer at people's lives. You can't just assume that just because they have beauty and wealth that they aren't touched by tragedy, heartbreak, cheating, and everything else that plagues us mere mortals. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.
Annie Jocoby
#98. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?
Sharon Sant
#99. The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
Frida Kahlo
#100. Believe he should have to actually "work" like the rest of us and he thinks the constituents
Greg Gutfeld
