Everyman Quotes

• I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Teacher, Father, School

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• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Views, Psychology, Als

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• I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

  Kato Kaelin

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

  Jason Segel

  Heart, Special, Bears

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• Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Profound, Honest, Quiet

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

  "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

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• The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Government, Liberty

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Brother, Men, Enemy

  Kenneth Patchen (1991). “Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, Small PressDistribution

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• Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Angel, Everyday, Eternity

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.27, City Lights Publishers

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• It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

  Bob Seger

  Philosophy, Higher Ground, Passages

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

  Rod McKuen

  Differences, People, Ask Me

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, People

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• One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

  Vartan Gregorian

  New York, Home, Pride

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• The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.

  Herbert Read

  Military, War, Home

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• Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

  John Redwood

  Economics, Owners, Equity

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• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Who I Am, Style

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• I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.

  Len Wiseman

  Reading, College, Different

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• It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

  Amir Taheri

  Men, Enemy, Terrorist

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• I've only played two sort-of slackers, in Spaced and in Shaun Of The Dead. They're different people, but they have the same kind of everyman quality, particularly as a twentysomething.

  Simon Pegg

  Two, People, Quality

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

  Guy Garvey

  Care, Anthem, One Love

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Blue, Favourite

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• In a black-and-white world, back in the '50s, were voices from another era. All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men's voices, but they weren't Everyman, it was them.

  Billy West

  Different, World, Wayne

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I found a lot of comfort in the fact that 30-odd people have been companions before me. I think that when there are so many people contributing so many things to the show, all you can do is make it your own. You can't try to emulate anyone, because who would you pick? The companions are very much the everyman, and the audience watches the story through their eyes, so they could be the person next door. And everybody's different.

  Freema Agyeman

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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