E Quotes
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“Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.”
“Even if it was all in his head, it was just enough insanity to keep him sane.”
Source: Fireman
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
“Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)”
Source: The God Delusion
“Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.”
“Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.”
“Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while we're writing. Or if it's a definition that we want to defend and uphold, we are given a sense of the boundaries within which we can work.”
“Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.”
“Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.”
“Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.”
“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”
“Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.”
“Even if it's L.A. and it's warmer, we're not supposed to be revving up right now. I don't like everyone's energy around [winter] time of year.”
“Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.”
“Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.”
“Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)
“Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.”
“Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.”
“Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.”
“Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.”
“Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
“Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do”
Source: You Don't Know Me
“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
Source: Open
“Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.”
“Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.”
“Even if leftists were able to get control of every institution they want to destroy, what they want is not possible. The circumstances for life on this planet that they want are not possible to achieve. The closest they can get to it is communism and tyranny where they have to force everybody to live the way they want.”
“Even if life hadn't been so kind to her, there were things to fight for. Things worth protecting.”
Source: Reanimate at Dawn
“Even if life has no purpose, it doesn’t mean that yours shouldn’t have one either. The universe will not care either way.”
“Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.”
“Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.”
“Even if love has been bent and broken and bruised along the way, it floods the sky like the brightest sunrise and heals everything in the end.”
Source: Just Might Work
“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”
“Even if Maeve had kept me enslaved, I would have fought her. Every day, every hour, every breath."
He kissed her softly and said onto her lips, "I would have fought for the rest of my life to find a way to return to you again. I knew it the moment you emerged from the Valg's darkness and smiled at em through your flames.”
“Even if Maeve had kept me enslaved, I would have fought her. Every day, every hour, every breath."
He kissed her softly and said onto her lips, "I would have fought for the rest of my life to find a way to return to you again. I knew it the moment you emerged from the Valg's darkness and smiled at me through your flames.”
“Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Even if mankind manages to be immortal in a mortal universe, this time it must find a way to make the universe immortal too! Every problem in this universe seems like an impossible task, but the most important feature of the human mind is that it does not see impossible tasks as impossible!”
“Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.”
Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding
“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.”
Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
“Even if Mina left a book sitting open on the table in the sunroom, Yoneda-san would never presume to move it or put away. Beyond the page lay an unknown world, and the open book was a portal to that world that should not be thoughtlessly disturbed, lest Mina be unable to find her way back. Or so Yoneda-san believed.
In the house at Ashiya, books were considered more precious than any sculpture or piece of pottery.”
Source: Mina's Matchbox
“Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.”
“Even if my body falls broken, my mind and spirit will carry me on!”
Source: THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self
“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”
“Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.”
“Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.”
“Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'”
“Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.”
Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier