A Quotes
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“And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.”
Source: 5 Miles
“And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.”
Source: Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
“And even while tired of life, you stand firm, for something or someone.”
“And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to make adjustments once you see your clothes on a real live person. Now imagine doing that with more sizes, more proportions. You really have to play with every piece. So timing is a big part of it. You have to make the time.”
“And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.”
“And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.”
“And eventually enough time has passed for it to hurt only almost all the time. She has endured. She can miss him without screaming every time. Hug without crying all the time. Laugh without always feeling guilty. Life goes on. It doesn't give us any other choice.”
Source: The Winners
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse”
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.”
“And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland”
Source: The Complete Alice in Wonderland
“And evermore the waters worship God;--
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves!”
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.”
“And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?”
“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”
“And every day I woke with a dream or a thought of her. Every night I slept with the knife of regret in my chest.”
Source: Shantaram
“And every day that we rob people of the ability to live their lives to the fullest, we are undermining the most precious gift we are given as humans.”
Source: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.”
“And every dew-drop paints a bow.”
Source: In Memoriam
“And every dollar they saved was worth less with every financial crisis, while the government just printed more money to preserve the stock markets, the financial status of the elites, and the banks who served them.”
Source: An Evil Trade
“And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.”
“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”
Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction
“And every human being is precious.”
“And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.”
“And every last one of us can do better than give up.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.”
“And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“And every minute that goes by and Amber's not here, my heart breaks for him.”
Source: Seasons of the Storm
“And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord, yea, that great and abomniable church, shall tumble to the dust and great shall be the fall of it.”
“And every night I would think of you. Now that I can no longer see you, I realized how much I needed you. School is incredibly boring, but as a matter of self-discipline I am going to all my classes and doing all the assignments. Everything seems pointless since you left.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.”
“And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.”
“And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.”
“and every six seconds a blackbird”
Source: Falling Awake
“And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.”
“And every time I've set out to meet life, I've met and embraced death. I've collected all my skeletons and bones from each of those moments and have stored them inside the closet that I own. The bones that the death wouldn't touch. And I guess now I have enough of them with me to build a bridge to the paradise in which life lives.”
Source: Reflections in a Shattered Mirror
“And every time she grabbed her brush and started doing things on the canvas, he felt her telling the story of his life, he just always did things, he did not know why and what would result be, but he just wanted to do them.
His motto when things come down is, go with the wind, let it take you where it wants to go.”
Source: Zero Moment: Do not be afraid, this is only a passing novel and will end
“And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“and every time they
try to make you feel unworthy…
just go towards yourself.
choose to love yourself more.
and build such an unshakable bond
with your worth that there’s just
nothing anyone can ever do
to take you away from it.”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“and every time they
try to make you feel unworthy…
just go towards yourself.
choose to love yourself more.
and build such an unshakable bond with
your worth that there’s just nothing
they can ever do to take you away from it.”
“And every time we talk
Every single word builds up to this moment
And I gotta convince myself
I don't want it even though I do”
“And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.”
“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were inspired by what we said to rush off and read the books we were talking about, we can congratulate ourselves for all those guilty hours when, the last two left after a long lunch, we went on arguing about everything we knew.”
“And every year there is a brief, startling moment
When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us.”
“And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.”
“And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."”
“And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company”
Source: 4th wish