E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.”
Source: Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series
“Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”
Source: The Atonement Child
“Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.”
“Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas”
“Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.”
“Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.”
Source: Fire
“Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.”
Source: Fire
“Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.”
Source: Visions of Sugar Plums
“Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don’t just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.”
“Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.”
Source: Pirate Cinema
“Everyone wants a great life with a great shortcut but without great struggle.”
Source: Slate
“Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.”
“Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.”
“Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.”
“Everyone wants a little more than they deserve.”
“Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.”
“Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.”
Source: Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
“Everyone wants a second chance to reincarnate. To enjoy life. But in a relationship you are told that a liar will always be a liar. Or, a lover once will always love again.”
“Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.”
“Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.”
“Everyone wants answer but nobody wants to answer.”
Source: Coffee Beans
“Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.”
“Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.”
“Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of these God’s children, and why we believe that the new definition of freedom today is self-determination.”
“Everyone wants everything in life to be always wonderful, and life's response is: Did you do everything always wonderfully to make everything wonderful?”
“Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.”
“Everyone wants it, but not everyone gets it. I have it because I created it.”
“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
Source: If They Come for Us
“Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?”
Source: The Queen of Swords
“Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!”
“Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.”
“Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.”
“Everyone wants power; let them have it. Your goal is not power. Your goal is the illusion of surrendering power.”
Source: Head Lion
“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”
“Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.”
“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”
Source: The Dark-Hunter Companion
“Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them.”
Source: Rationality
“Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.”
“Everyone wants something that they can’t possibly have. And if they could have it, they’d discover that they didn’t really want it all along.”
Source: This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
“Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.”
Source: Darkchylde
“Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.”
“Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.”
“Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.”
“Everyone wants to be a consumer these days nobody wants to create. I guess it’s easier. But I think creating is such a beautiful thing, you get to bring an idea into reality and you can alter a person's consciousness with just one idea. It’s kind of like a superpower but in reality, everyone can do it, if they want to.”
“Everyone wants to be a consumer these days nobody wants to create. I guess it’s easier. But I think creating is such a beautiful thing, you get to bring an idea into reality and you can elevate a person's consciousness with just one idea. It’s kind of like a superpower but in reality, everyone can do it, if they want to.”
“Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.”
“Everyone wants to be a leader until it is time to do leader sh*t”
“Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.”