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Everything Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
- The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we…
- When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
- Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
- Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
- The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
- The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
- In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
- The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...
- Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of…
- The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
More Everything Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood