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  • Day by day natural science accumulates new riches† The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected† Everything has been discussed and analyzed, or at least mentioned.

    -Jean le Rond d' Alembert
      Elements of Philosophy.

  •    But we mustn't go too far back†in anybody's life† Because if we do†then nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.

    - Martin Louis Amis
      London Fields, ch.10.

  • Como te dec|a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m | no existir|a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.

    - Miguel AŁ   ngel Asturias
      El sen‹  or presidente ( The President,1963), pt.3, ch.37.

  • Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Fridayin fact thanks for everything except last night.

    - Brooks Atkinson
    Reviewing Le Roy Bailey's Thanks for Tomorrow. Quoted in the NewYork Times,14  Jan1984.

  •    A place for everything and everything in its place.

    - Isabella Mary ne  e Mayson Beeton
    The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

  • That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.

    - Alan Bold
      'June1967 at Buchenwald'.

  • Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

    - Francis Herbert Bradley
      Appearance and Reality, preface.

  • It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

    - (Arthur) Joyce Lunel Cary
      Art and Reality, introduction.

  •   Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

    -James Harold Doolittle
    ^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

  • The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

    - Louis Dudek
    Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

  • Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.

    - Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington
      Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

  • Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo   Dios que le dec|an y a u n no hab|a creado el mundo, todav|a no hab|a nada.Tambie  n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza   desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo  . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.

    - Macedonio Ferna n dez
      Museo de la novela de la Eterna ('The Museum of Eternity's Novel'),'Pro  logo a la eternidad'.

  • What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.

    - Ava originally Lucy Johnson Gardner
      Ava: My Story.

  • The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.

    - Maggie Gee
      Lost Children, ch.35.

  • Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. Everything clever has been thought of before.We must try to think it again.

    -JohannWolfgang von Goethe
      Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.1.

  • Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

    - Re  my de Gourmont
      Promenades philosophiques (translated by Glen S Burne, 1966).

  • There's time enough for everything in the Never-Never.

    -Jeannie known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn Gunn
      We of the Never-Never, ch.5.

  • So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

    -William Hazlitt
    Literary Remains (published1836),'My First  Acquaintance with Poets'.

  • To say nothing is out here isincorrect; tosay the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stoneand earth is closer to the truth.

    -William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon Heat-Moon
      Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

  • My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

    -Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
      Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

  • One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

    - Robert F(rancis) Kennedy
      In the Observer, May.

  • Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

    -Kim Il Sung
      Speech, 20  Apr. Collected in Selected Works (1992), vol.1, 'Work with  Artists Should be Carried Out in Line with Political Principles'.

  • Tout est dit, et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il y a des hommes et qui pensent. Everything has been said. After seven thousand years of human thought, we have come too late.

    -Jean de La Bruye'  re
      Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des ouvrages de l'esprit', no.1.

  • Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

    -Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
    Metamorphoses, bk.15, l.234 (translated by Peter Green).

  • Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.

    - Arnold Palmer
    Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  •    Dans une grande a"  me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

    - Blaise Pascal
    c.1653  Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

  • This is not the end of anything. This is the beginning of everything.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      On his re-election. In Time, Nov.

  • Brains are not everything.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Rev Samuel Gardner. MrsWarren's Profession, act1.

  • He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Undershaft speaking of Stephen. Major Barbara, act 3.

  • Who will dare deny that theThird Estate contains within itself all that is needed to constitute a nation?† What would theThird Estate be without theprivileged classes? It would be a whole in itself, and a prosperous one. Nothing can be done without it, and everything would be done far better without the others.

    -Sie'  yes
      Qu'est-ce que le tiers-e  tat?

  • Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

    - Adam Smith
      An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

  • You only have power over people so long as you do not take everything away from them. But when you have robbed man of everything, he is no longer in your pockethe is free.

    - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
      The First Circle.

  • Well, it's about everything in particular, isn't it?

    - Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
      Of Proust. A Far Cry from Kensington, ch.6.

  • Unaquaeque res, quantum in se est, in suo esse perseverare conatur. Everything in so far as it is in itself endeavours to persist in its own being.

    - Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
      Ethics, bk.3, prop.6.

  • Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

    - Gertrude Stein
      Everybody's Autobiography, ch.2.

  • Everything presses onwhilst thou art twisting that lock,see! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Tristram toJenny.Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.8.

  • Everything we see Teaches the time that we are living in.

    - (Alfred) Charles Tomlinson
      'Poem for My Father'.

  • Non omnia possumus omnes. We cannot all do everything.

    -Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
    Eclogues, 8.63 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).

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