E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even gods have need of warriors. Just as you have need of me.”
Source: Tamesa: A Divided World: Epic Fantasy
“Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse or something like that, so that even helps people when I'm doing comedy; it's all done to make them laugh.”
“Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.”
“Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.”
“Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.”
“Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.”
Source: If I Stay
“Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.”
“Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much.
Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.”
“Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.”
Source: Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass
“Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.”
“Even good men can preform evil deeds.”
Source: The Caldarian Conflict
“Even good paddy - is punished by being pounded with the pestle to yield rice.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Even good people are obliged to deceive.”
“Even good things when desired so desperately can be evil.”
“Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.”
Source: RFK: collected speeches
“Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.”
Source: Precepts and counsels on scientific investigation: stimulants of the spirit
“Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.”
“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”
“Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.”
“Even great men can be corrupted”
“Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.”
“Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.”
“Even grey has a shade of happiness.”
“Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We'll remember the moment the news came -- where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.”
“Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.”
“Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.”
“Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.”
“Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.”
“Even happiness is transient, as it needs a reason. The ultimate state is bliss”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.”
Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct
“Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.”
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles
“Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.”
“Even hard times hate to overstay their welcome —hence they come and go, like the seasons.”
“Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you.”
“Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.”
“Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you that same dopamine and serotonin kick. Maybe heroes are just junkies.”
Source: Kill Baxter
“Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.”
“Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.”
“Even Hazel had stopped telling Neylan that wearing dragons was inappropriate.”
Source: The Firethorn Crown
“Even he himself, a moment later, was aghast at the curse that he had just spewed: it wasn’t his words… Maybe it was Karma who had sat upon his tongue, and put her curse on the family through him. Maybe it was Karma who had used him as an instrument to do the inevitable. Maybe it was Karma! Maybe!”
Source: The Web of Karma
“Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that.”
Source: The Laws of the Skies
“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].”
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.”
“Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality.”
“Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!”
“Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you were with your loved one, but in hell, eventually you would cry to have you and your loved one together in heaven. So to create your own heaven on earth, make sure you and your loved one are in a place you both LOVE, because what could be heaven for one, could be hell for the other.”
“Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.”
“Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.”
Source: And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
“Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.”
Source: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes