E Quotes
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“Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.”
“Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one another beautifully to a dance. She dares to be at play in the most unsettling questions of her day. Surely when the present generation of writers shakes down to its unique and irreplaceable voices, Kellie Wells will be one of them.”
“Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.”
Source: The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain
“Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.”
“Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.”
Source: More Time to Think: A Way of Being in the World
“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’”
Source: Bentley on Brecht
“Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.”
“Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.”
Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
“Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.”
“Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!”
“Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.”
“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.”
“Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.”
“Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.”
“Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.”
Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy”
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
“Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.”
“Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.”
“Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.”
“Even in absence, loved ones wish for us to cherish life with joy.”
“Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who gets up there and sings so truthfully - I like that.”
“Even in Africa, I had never seen such a profusion of stars as I saw on these clear nights on Pacific isles - not only big beaming planets and small single pinpricks... but also glittering clouds of them - the whole dome of the sky crowded with thick shapes formed from stars, overlaid with more shapes, a brilliant density, like a storm of light over a black depthless sea, made brighter still by twisting auroras composed of tiny star grains - points of light so fine and numerous they seemed like luminous vapor, the entire sky hung with veils of light like dazzling smoke... they made night in Oceania as vast and dramatic as day.”
Source: The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
“Even in an age where the answer to almost all of life’s questions is a simple Google search away, we often don’t take the time to read the entire article for the answer. We don’t make time to actively seek out the truth, only the first or most relevant result.”
Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making
“Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.”
Source: Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires
“Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.”
“Even in an empty room, we are never alone.”
“Even in an environment designed to demonize you, don’t let their action detonate you. Strive to keep yourself calm and peaceful.”
Source: International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine: 2023 Collected Works
“Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.”
“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.”
“Even in and out and in and out of isolation,
We must find ways to choose hope,
To choose to go on,
To choose to make things,
To choose to make things better,
To choose
Life.
L'Shana Tovah.”
“Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.”
“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.”
“Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.”
“Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.”
“Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.”
“Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.”
“Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.”
“Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.”
“Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.”
“Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.”
“Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners or/part of the rescue:/a muleteer in/earflaps; a/formerly hearty/Midwestern farmer/perhaps. Both/parties trapped/within sight/of the pass.”
“Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.”
“Even in combat boots feminine form is hounded by the historical legacy of sex discrimination in everyday social practice, by the history and control of woman's "appropriate" imaging, and by the effects which that appropriation [...] has had upon women's lives.”
Source: The Explicit Body in Performance
“Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.”
“Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.”
“Even in darkness, find your light!”