E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even a poet cannot get everything right.”
Source: Lavinia
“Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.”
“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
“Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.”
“Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.”
“Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.”
“Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.”
“Even a president makes mistakes.”
“Even a professional musician doesn't trust the microphone, that's why he has to test it many times at first.”
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
“Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Even a rain cloud has rainbows.”
“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.”
“Even a river rushing down carrying with it the settlements and histories appears calm from the sky.”
“Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.”
“Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired”
Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Even a simple haircut or facial shave is in my opinion an expression of uniformity to following a certain trend or portraying a certain image.”
Source: 2020 Vision
“Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.”
Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness
“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
“Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Even a single macro change – like an increase in the price of gasoline due to geo-political tensions – can have tremendous effects on a business’ ability to provide value to its customers.”
Source: Business Paradigm Shifting: A Quick 6-Step Guide to Remaining Relevant as Markets Change
“Even a single positive action lifting another woman up creates a ripple effect that carries on far beyond the original act and has an impact that’s difficult to measure. When you lift another woman up, you inspire others around you to do the same. And those opportunities continue to be passed on.”
Source: Strong Women Lift Each Other Up
“Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.”
Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“Even a small act of kindeness flowers our hearts.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“Even a small amount of nectar
is a greater sum than none.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.”
“Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation.”
“Even a small match
lit in a place of total
darkness gives off a
blinding light.”
Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“Even a smile can be charity.”
“Even a smile can help a lonely soul!”
“Even a smile is a good deed.”
“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
“Even a soft flicker of dream keeps us alive. We live to dream. We dream to live.”
“Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.”
“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
Source: Fragments
“Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.”
“Even a spineless anthropod sheds what's no longer useful and leaves it behind them. Are you not greater than they?”
“Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.”
“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.”
“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
Source: The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend
“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
“Even a summer night is cold when you sleep alone.”
Source: A Wolf Called Wander
“Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.”
Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)
“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not try to inflict them upon others by force; he has the right to argue for them as eloquently as he can. But he has no right to be protected from the criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge.”
“Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”