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everything Definition

every·thing (evrē thiŋ′)

  1. every thing; all things; all
  2. all things pertinent to a specified matter
  3. the most important thing money is everything to him

everything Synonyms

everything

pron.

all, all things, the universe, the whole complex, the whole, the lot, all that, every little thing*, the whole kit and caboodle*; lock, stock and barrel*; the whole bit*, the whole bunch*, the whole shebang*, the whole schmear*, the whole ball of wax*, the whole shooting match*, the works*, you name it*; see also all.

everything Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • do: We will do everything we can to make you happy.
  • cover: Your form tutor will probably talk to you to ensure they have covered everything.
  • know: Everyone seems to want to know everything about me all the time.
  • lose: I also pray for those who survived but lost everything they had.
  • explain: Try and include or explain everything about you and your work.
  • believe: I have had enough of people believing everything I say is a lie.

Adjective modifier

  • virtually: Having no money and also preferring to do everything himself, Carpenter acted, directed and had a hand in virtually everything.
  • sure: Write clearly and make sure everything fits into the available space.
  • lost: But in winning, he's lost everything that's kept him going for years.
  • much: Well, pretty much everything from the ' 60s can be found, including Cortinas of all ages.

Modifies a noun

  • in-between: Because play is a noun, a verb and everything in-between.
  • kitesurfing: BKSA kite surf site with free registration, kitesurf message board and everything kitesurfing in the UK.
  • else.: Music can sometimes be guarded and cynical so I wanted to do something different to everything else. ' Says Ian.
  • that's: Remember that Contents insurance covers everything thatâs moveable in your home â that includes your carpets and curtains.
  • s/he: Ask your property owner to put everything s/he is offering in writing, it will save any misunderstanding later on.
  • inside: It felt like I had been kicked over and over by a bull and everything inside was broken.

Noun used with modifier

  • fact: In fact everything seemed more relevant, more down to earth.
  • drop: Drop everything they're doing and pop round to give a massage?

Preposition: in

  • sight: Because not only does it cut everything in sight, but virtually everything out of sight too.

Preposition: under

  • sun: He talks almost continually about everything under the sun - except himself.
everything Quotes

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

—Kennedy, Robert F(rancis)

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

—Reagan, Ronald Wilson

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

Brains are not everything.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

—Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317

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.

—Goethe,JohannWolfgang von

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.

—Gee, Maggie

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.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

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.

—Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon

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.

—Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy)

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.

—Alembert,Jean le Rond d'

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.

—Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique

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.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

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.

—Ferna¤ n dez, Macedonio

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

—Gardner, Ava originally Lucy Johnson

   A place for everything and everything in its place.

—Beeton, Isabella Mary ne¤  e Mayson

   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.

—Amis, Martin Louis

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

—Kim Il Sung

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

—Pascal, Blaise

Everything presses onöwhilst thou art twisting that lock,ösee! 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.

—Sterne, Laurence

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

—Tomlinson, (Alfred) Charles

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

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

—Stein, Gertrude

  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.

—Doolittle,James Harold

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

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

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.

—Asturias, Miguel AŁ   ngel

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.

—Smith, Adam

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.

—Gourmont, Re¤  my de

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

—Dudek, Louis

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.

—Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel

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 pocketöhe is free.

—Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

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

—Atkinson, Brooks

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.

—Bold, Alan

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

—Shaw, George Bernard

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

—Gunn,Jeannie known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn

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.

—Hazlitt,William

Non omnia possumus omnes. We cannot all do everything.

—Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

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

—Bradley, Francis Herbert

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.

—Palmer, Arnold

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