E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.”
“Even a Jedi Knight is still a living being, with the same failings." - Qui-Gon Jinn”
Source: The Dark Rival
“Even a jewelry shop invests in a security guard.
Protect your portfolio by investing in insurance, emergency fund & cyber-awareness.”
Source: FOOPS!
“Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction.”
“Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.”
“Even a lie is a psychic fact.”
“Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Even a lifetime of grief is only a little while in light of Eternity.”
“Even a little bit of fame can mess with your head. It’s a cognitive disease, you know? Fame. It used to only be for royalty and we know what they’re like. I’m not much of a Freudian, but something about fame makes the ID and the Superego devour the Ego like an anacondas in a cage, right before they cannibalize each other. Fame warps your identity, metastasizes your anxieties and hollows you out like a jack-o-lantern. It’s sparkly pixy dust that burns whatever it touches like acid.”
Source: All Our Wrong Todays
“Even a little dog can piss on a big building.”
“Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.”
“Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.”
“Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?”
“Even a little ray of hope has the potential to turn you into a big star.”
“Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.”
“Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.”
“Even a man accused of the worst act of terrorism ever committed in this country - especially such a man - is entitled to the best possible defense. This concept is a cornerstone of our justice system.”
Source: Others Unknown: Timothy Mcveigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy
“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.”
“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies— and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through “innocence” or “ignorance.” The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any “God,” or any “sinner,” or any “Saviour”— that “free will” and the “moral order of the world” are lies —: serious reflection, the profound self-conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it. . . . All the ideas of the church are now recognized for what they are — as the worst counterfeits in existence, invented to debase nature and all natural values; the priest himself is seen as he actually is — as the most dangerous form of parasite, as the venomous spider of creation. . . . We know, our conscience now knows — just what the real value of all those sinister inventions of priest and church has been and what ends they have served, with their debasement of humanity to a state of self-pollution, the very sight of which excites loathing — the concepts “the other world,” “the last judgment,” “the immortality of the soul,” the “soul” itself: they are all merely so many instruments of torture, systems of cruelty, whereby the priest becomes master and remains master. . . .”
Source: The Anti-Christ
“Even a man who's pure in heart
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright.”
Source: Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer
“Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.”
“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.”
“Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.”
“Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.”
Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.”
Source: Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”
“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”
“Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.”
“Even a mistake is better than nothing.”
“Even a moment of jesting with an asura is likely to lead to incalculable evil consequences.”
Source: The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
“Even a moment's reflection will help you see that the problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart. It will only yield to a change in the very way we feel about time. The value of time must change for us. And then the way we think about it will change, naturally and wisely.
That change in feeling and in thinking is combined in the words of a prophet of God in this dispensation. It was Brigham Young, and the year was 1877, and he was speaking at April general conference. He wasn't talking about time or schedules or frustrations with too many demands upon us. Rather, he was trying to teach the members of the Church how to unite themselves in what was called the united order. The Saints were grappling with the question of how property should be distributed if they were to live the celestial law. In his usual direct style, he taught the people that they were having trouble finding solutions because they misunderstood the problem. Particularly, he told them they didn't understand either property or the distribution of wealth. Here is what he said:
With regard to our property, as I have told you many times, the property which we inherit from our Heavenly Father is our time, and the power to choose in the disposition of the same. This is the real capital that is bequeathed unto us by our Heavenly Father; all the rest is what he may be pleased to add unto us. To direct, to counsel and to advise in the disposition of our time, pertains to our calling as God's servants, according to the wisdom which he has given and will continue to give unto us as we seek it. [JD 18:354]
Time is the property we inherit from God, along with the power to choose what we will do with it. President Young calls the gift of life, which is time and the power to dispose of it, so great an inheritance that we should feel it is our capital. The early Yankee families in America taught their children and grandchildren some rules about an inheritance. They were always to invest the capital they inherited and live only on part of the earnings. One rule was "Never spend your capital." And those families had confidence the rule would be followed because of an attitude of responsibility toward those who would follow in later generations. It didn't always work, but the hope was that inherited wealth would be felt a trust so important that no descendent would put pleasure ahead of obligation to those who would follow. Now, I can see and hear Brigham Young, who was as flinty a New Englander as the Adams or the Cabots ever hoped to be, as if he were leaning over this pulpit tonight. He would say something like this, with a directness and power I wish I could approach: "Your inheritance is time. It is capital far more precious than any lands or stocks or houses you will ever get. Spend it foolishly, and you will bankrupt yourself and cheapen the inheritance of those that follow you. Invest it wisely, and you will bless generations to come.
“A Child of Promise”, BYU Speeches, 4 May 1986”
“Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”
“Even a most detailed temporary snapshot of our brains will not magically make us alive again when it is run as a software version on a computer that operates an artificial robot body.”
Source: Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!
“Even a mouldy crust of bread may be riches beyond computing. Even a cellar stocked with
gold may be poverty beyond relief.”
“Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives
“Even a normal conversation with fools can turn into an argument, but if the fool is also selfish and anxious, arguments can quickly turn ugly.”
Source: Quantraz
“Even a pacemaker cannot regulate the hearts rhythm for the music of love”
“Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.”
“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
“Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.”
“Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.”
“Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.”
Source: Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art
“Even a pawn makes a move, sometimes two steps in the beginning. How small or limited it may be, it can never be overlooked. Remember, it is a pawn and only the pawn which gets promoted once it reaches the other side of the chessboard. If a pawn, saddened by its abilities, stops making any move, it can never evolve into something greater. We have to make moves, my friend, to progress.”
Source: That Thing About You
“Even a person like this makes mistakes, can't always hold on to everything they'd like to,can't always force the world to spin in the direction of their choosing. You'll hug him longer than necessary and tell him to keep in touch. And you'll know, finally, that it had nothing to do with you.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Even a piece of bad writing can have its own mysterious life, and be a fascination.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Even a plant is a living being, therefore we must also consider its mind and soul; just like we do in the case of a human being.”