E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
“Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.
Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)”
Source: Diary of a Penguin-napper
“Even her worst enemy was forced to admit that Fräulein Ann wielded a very pretty spade.”
Source: The King's Bride
“Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.”
“Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.”
“Even here in Michigan my mom had found a way to climb before she even knew it was a sport. Before she'd ever seen a mountain.”
Source: The Art of Holding On and Letting Go
“Even here in the darkness: there is still beauty… there is still breath… the moon still rises…”
Source: An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.”
“Even heroes have the right to bleed”
“Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.”
Source: Mythologies
“Even his enemies conceded he was tremendous company, and those who became fond of him liked him though they knew him to be unreliable and unpredictable... He was no the first nor the last person to develop an enduring friendship with those who ought to have despised him, in large part because he made them laugh.”
Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.”
“Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.”
“Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.”
“Even his I love you's," she said, "were like tiny daggers, like little needles or safety pins. Beware of a man who says he loves you but is incapable of a passionate confession; of melting into a sob.”
Source: Self-help
“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.”
Source: Jean Santeuil
“Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.”
“Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'”
“Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.”
“Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.”
“Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.”
“Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.”
“Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.”
“Even humble comic books could not escape the new puritanism. In 1952, comics were removed from the on-board bookshops of the US Pacific Fleet, on the grounds that they were too violent and graphic for marines and sailors.”
Source: The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.”
“Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”
“Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.”
Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.”
“Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.”
“Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.”
“Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up.”
“Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.”
“Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.”
“Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.”
“Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.”
“Even identical twins have their own differences.”
“Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued, and the fourth one should be crazy.”
“Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”
“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.”
“Even if [Donald] Trump concedes, some of his supporters have promised to take up arms against [Hillary] Clinton.”
“Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.”
“Even if a blessed person appears
disadvantaged by societal standards,
God still turns everything around them
into a marvel.”
Source: BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE
“Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.”
“Even if a child knows better, a child should be spoken to with loving respect to assist them to learn.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.”
Source: Practical Philosophy
“Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.”
“Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.”