E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.”
Source: How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities
“Even if trees stand on the ground dead starts from the head – like that, the country starts deteriorating because of the government’s mismanagement – not for the common people.”
“মাটিতে গাছ মরে দাঁড়ালেও মাথা থেকে শুরু হয়- সেইরূপ, সরকারের অব্যবস্থাপনার কারণে দেশর অবনতি হয় – সাধারণ মানুষের জন্য নয়।”
“Even if two people have a baby together, they are still separate. Each of us remains in isolation. It’s not by living together, or by having sexual relations, or even by having children together that we can dispel this feeling of isolation. We can only dispel our mutual isolation when we practice mindfulness and are able to truly come home to ourselves and each other.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.”
Source: Insatiable
“Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.”
Source: Art For Dummies
“Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?”
“Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.”
“Even if we admit that running-survey and compass techniques were somehow being used on ships to produce sea-charts as early as the thirteenth century (which most historians of science would rule out) we still come against the unexplained enigma of the miraculous and fully formed de novo appearance of the Carta Pisane. As we've seen, not a single chart pre-dates it that demonstrates in any way the gradual build-up of coastal profiles across the whole extent of the Mediterranean that must have occurred before a likeness as perfect as this could have been resolved.
It is possible, of course, through the vicissitudes of history, that all the evidence for the prior evolution of portolans before the Carta Pisane has simply been lost. If that were the case, however -- in other words if the Carta Pisane is a snapshot of a certain moment in the development of an evolving genre of maps, and if we accept that all earlier 'snap-shots' have been lost, wouldn't we nevertheless expect that such an 'evolving genre' would have continued to evolve after the date of the earliest surviving example?
Whether we set the date of the Pisane between 1270 and 1290 [...] or a little later -- between 1295 and 1300 -- as other scholars have argued, we've seen that there was no significant evolution afterwards.
Now kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the enigmatic Pisane is an unsigned chart and scholars have no idea who the cartographer might have been.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.”
“Even if we apologize or the good we do outweighs the harm, damage remains and consequences follow. The person we yelled at is now an enemy.”
“Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.”
“Even if we are all running on a treadmill, it is helping us, because we are becoming leaner and fitter. Our soul is losing its excessive fat. It is on its way to becoming the best version of itself.”
Source: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
“Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.”
“Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.”
“Even if we are married to the same person, and remain faithful to her or him for the rest of our lives, that will still not stop our desires from straying. We will continue to lust after Shah Rukh Khan or Sophia Loren even as we might stay happily married. This is the way desire operates—through fantasy rather than fact.”
Source: Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
“Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.”
“Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.”
“Even if we assume all Reality, all existence, in its totality, as an illusion, we still affirm and confirm the existence of reality—the existence of existence itself. What matters is existence itself and not the attributes we apply to our idea of reality. If there is existence, then there is a reality. Existence itself is a reality. Our characterization of reality as an “illusion” doesn’t change the fact that there is reality (even if it is a reality of an illusion). If there is a reality, then there can be no illusion about the existence of existence. The only illusion may come from our understanding (or misunderstanding) of reality and its various manifestations and expressions.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Even if we both survive, I won't enforce my claim on you," I said desperately. "In fact, the first thing I'll do is drop you back at that bordello in Poland and order you a new carnival orgy, promise!" Then I threw up, spraying a stream of crimson all over him as I lost my fight against the nausea.
"See?" I managed when I finished puking. Vow sealed with a blood oath."
He looked down at himself in disgust. "This is everything I knew marriage would be.”
Source: Shades of Wicked
“Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).”
“Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“Even if we can’t see it, the sun never stops shining.”
Source: Pony
“Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.”
“Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence”
“Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“Even if we cannot harvest love, we should never stop planting flowers in our hearts.”
“Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.”
“Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.”
“Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Even if we create a better human eye (biologically), a better leg, a better heart, and a better jaw, this will prove nothing except our drive to continue and improve ourselves and live within the given frame. An idea of creation in terms of fundamental creation of what we see as the Universe (or anything in it) will always be beyond human reach. Whatever we create can only be the modification or mutation of whatever exists. We can explore our potential for novelty within scientific discoveries and arts and not in the realm of primordial original creation beyond human comprehension and reach.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.”
“Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.”
“Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.”
“Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.”
“Even if we do nothing,
I want to do it with you.”
“Even if we do our best to safely and effectively respond to the other person’s verbal attack, we still have to face up to the fact that it’s going to take a little while for him or her to settle down.”
Source: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
“Even if we don't become an expert—always prepared, refined, and elegant like a veteran swordsman, virtuoso Noh actor, or tea master—we're fine, aren't we? What's wrong with toddling and limping along the path of life practicing zazen?”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“Even if we don't know where we'll go in the future, perhaps our lives were always meant to collide again and again. Perhaps we are forever meant to be each other's catalysts.”
Source: Rebel
“Even if we don't win or succeed at least we ought to die or fail by trying.”
Source: Toxic Self-Love: A Guide To Understanding Narcissism In Yourself
“Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.”
“Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.”
“Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.”
“Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.”
“Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.”
“Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.”
“Even if we endorse the feasibility of shared experiences, a series of questions arise. The first one concerns the role of language in the formation of our thoughts and of our “inner life”. Musk assumes that our thoughts are present in our mind independently of their expression in language, so that if I connect my brain directly with another’s brain, the other individual will experience my thoughts directly in all their wealth and finesse, not distorted by the clumsiness and simplification of language.
But what if language in all its clumsiness and simplification generates the elusive wealth of our thoughts? A thought’s true content actualises itself only through its linguistic expression – prior to this expression, it is nothing substantial, just a confused inner intention. I only learn what I wanted to say by effectively saying it. We think in words: even when we see and experience events and processes, their perception is already structured through our symbolic network. When I see a gun in front of me, all the meanings associated with it are symbolically overdetermined – I perceive a gun but this perception is given its specific spin by the word “gun” that resonates in it, and words always refer to universal notions. Therein resides the paradox of the symbolic overdetermination: when I perceive a real gun in front of me, the word “gun” awakens the rich texture of meaning associated with a gun.”
“Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.”
“Even if we fall apart, even if we don't stay together, even if we Die there is this beauty about Love that keeps us alive in each others' heart, acting as a catalyst for beating the heart.”
“Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.”