E Quotes
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“Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.”
“Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.”
Source: The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel. (In this Edition the More Objectionable Passages and Pieces are Omitted.).
“Even everything on a rhino can be used by the man living in the bush. THe hide makes fine table tops, the legs - baskets, the hair on the tail - fine bracelets, the teeth - good carvings, and if you grind up the horn and eat it, you can have children even if you are ninety years old. The flesh is delicious, if aged properly.”
Source: How to Get out of the Rat Race and Live on $10 a Month
“Even everything will come to failure and seems it always like that, i’ll just start again. The biggest ability i have, is ability to keep repeat on fail.”
“Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.”
Source: My method, including American impressions
“Even evil magicians get up in the night and look for cookies, sometimes.”
“Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.”
Source: The Infinite Variety of Music
“Even expression of love becomes bone of contention if destiny so desires.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“Even failure is unfinished proof.”
“Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.”
“Even fairy tales have limits," said Sophie. "Three people can't have an Ever After. Not without me being alone.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”
“Even fallen trees contain an aura of greatness.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.”
“Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'”
“Even fear afraid of faith.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.”
“Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.”
“Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.”
“Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day.”
“Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.”
“Even fools are right sometimes.”
“Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”
Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Even fools teach, mostly by example.”
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.”
“Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.”
“Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.”
“Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.”
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Even for physical science, the ultimate test of whether or not something is true lies in the individual's experience, not in some objectified, dogmatic set of rules. The sensory experiences which are predictable from natural scientific 'laws' permit agreement between individuals because those individuals share very similar physical structures, are persuaded by the same kinds of logical reasoning, and operate with a similar set of values.”
Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
“Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”
“Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?”
Source: Poems
“Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.”
“Even for the lucky , life is too short and all the best bits are bad for your health.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.”
“Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.”
Source: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
“Even for the most minimal definitions of democracy—as a mechanism to ensure peaceful turnovers in power after a process of popular will-formation —it is crucial that citizens be well informed about politics; otherwise, governments can hardly be held accountable.”
Source: What Is Populism?
“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.”
“Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.”
“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”
Source: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science
“Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.”
“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.”
Source: The Last Four Things
“Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.”
“Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.”
“Even for those who call the territory "the West Bank," and not "Judea and Samaria," there must be a recognition of the importance of that area to the Jewish people and to Jewish history. The land of the prophets of the Old Testament is there in the hilltops and valleys of Judea and Samaria, not on the beaches of Tel Aviv. I cannot that the one place in the world where Jews would not be allowed to live, by agreement, is Judea and Samaria in the State of Palestine.”
Source: In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine