E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even Nabila briefly seemed at a loss for words. When next she spoke, her voice had softened with confusion. "Even when you were trapped, our king did not return for you. He left you behind - and still you trust him?"
Rijah nodded without hesitation. "Is that not what loyalty is? To believe in someone even when they have made a grave mistake? Our king trusted us the same way we trusted him.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
“Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands of the clock. The word has connotations of gaining freedom. The German equivalent is 'Hemmung.' It means 'restraint,' and also, 'inhibition.' It conjures up images of of losing freedom. In describing a presumably emotionally neutral gadget, the two languages perceive in its functions two diametrically opposite states of human condition.”
Source: The Study of Time II: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Lake Yamanaka-Japan
“Even nature teaches us to adapt to different seasons. Adaptation is the key to a better life.”
“Even nature; the restless waves, irregular trees and stars all out of line show that chaos can be beautiful!”
Source: The Last Companion
“Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.”
“Even night is a gesture, sleep
a cog in its wheel of stars. Lie down.
At some point you lie down.”
Source: Cadaver, Speak
“Even night that doesn't seek; a new day finds
Ruby Mohan
Unsettled”
“Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.”
“Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.”
“Even not choosing is a choice.”
Source: Chosen
“Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy”
“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
“Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.”
“Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.”
“Even now, a boy will smile at me on the street, or Jesper will put his arm around my waist, and I feel like I’m going to vanish. I live in fear that I’ll see one of her—one of my—clients on the street. For a long time, I thought I recognized them everywhere. But sometimes I think what they did to me wasn’t the worst of it.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Even now, after all this time, I remember the heavy scent of smoke and mead in the air. I remember the glints from the hundreds of golden shields on the walls and the ceiling. I remember the look of pride in my father’s eyes looking across the einherjar. I remember the rush of voices when Thor came once in a while and walked through the hall, Mjolnir hanging from his belt and his wealth of red hair lighting up the gloom like another coal burner.
And this is my story. I, who have lived across time and space. I, who have jumped worlds and turned back on my choices. I, who gave up one identity for another. I understand now why I chose as I did. It wasn’t a random act or even an unknowing one. I had it all figured out all along. I knew where I was going and I chose every step of the way.
The most common mistake is asking: “Why? Why did this happen to me? Why is it this way? Why can’t it be otherwise?” The problem isn’t the why. The problem is that it is turned outwards. Instead, ask: Why did I choose this? The answer will always be: Because this is how I get my thrills. Always. It all comes down to how you want your story to be.”
Source: The End of Immortality
“Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.
Would she ever be free?”
Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Vampire
“Even now, at this very moment, I feel like he’s going to pop up somewhere, laugh wholeheartedly, and say, ‘Hey everyone, I’m still here. This was all just a big practical joke.”
Source: Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
“Even now Eros looks at me with tenderness
from under dark eyelids, and casts me spellbound
into Aphrodite's nets where I lie caught
inextricably,
for I swear his mere approach makes me tremble
like an old champion chariot horse, as he
draws a swift cart unwillingly to the race.”
“Even now, hard against the End of Time, when the death rattle of our species has become audible even to the thick-eared, they still grasp for a little more of the things we have always desired - coin, power, knowledge, gratification.”
Source: The Emperor's Legion
“Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had been.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“Even now," he whispered, a tear trickling down his cheek, "the powers of darkness are upon him in full force and fury. The term Luke used to describe this assault-the Greek word agon, translated as 'an agony'-means, literally, 'a contest, struggle, or fight, facing an opponent.'..It is what latter-day prophets have referred to as 'indescribable anguish' and 'overpowering torture,' a 'supreme contest with the powers of evil,' an 'hour of anguish when Christ had to meet and overcome all the horrors that Satan could inflict.' And he suffers all this, Ricky-and never forget this-for us.”
Source: The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“Even now I ask myself, what would have happened if I had gone to the cove with Tansy that Thursday afternoon, instead of going to the beach? If I had stayed away from the boat at the jetty, hidden from sight? If I had thrown the pearl back in the sea at the first opportunity when I had seen the look in Rammell’s eyes? But then I reason that it probably wouldn’t have made any difference. The Fates had spun my destiny, and I was tight roping along the threads that tangled in the sky, regardless of the drop below.”
“Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.”
“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.”
“Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.”
“Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.”
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour—that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is every really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color – that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Even now, I don't really understand most of what you're saying but I feel it, deep down, that everything you're saying is true and that I can trust you.”
Source: God Bless You Devil Kiss You
“Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.”
“Even now, I feel your arms around me
My breath is your breath and yours mine
Even now, I hear you laughing like bells ...
You sing to me and I sing to you
Dear child of my womb, my love,
Time has left us, left us forever together.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.”
Source: Thoughts of Saint Thérèse
“Even now I know that I am not a hero of my own story”
“Even now, I like to look in the mirror. Over the years, I’ve followed the progress of the wrinkles furrowing my brow. My cheeks have grown thinner and my lips have become pale, but it’s all me and I feel a sort of fondness for the reflection in the mirror. [...] I was just over forty. That was twenty-two years ago. I suppose I am an old woman, but I still love looking at my face. I don’t know if it’s beautiful or ugly, but it is the only human face I ever see. I smile at it and receive a friendly smile back.”
Source: I Who Have Never Known Men
“Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.”
Source: The Secret History
“Even now, I see his damp hair crowding at his forehead. His eyes, cerulean, the same as my mother's. Him, favoring the skin of any water to me. I remember him moving with it, and staying. That ripe light and intermittence. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever stop looking for him there.”
Source: We Died in Water
“Even now I shake and tremble as I write. Memory is too weak a name for this terrible evocation. Oh Hartley, Hartley, how timeless, how absolute love is. My love for you is unaware that I am old and you perhaps are dead.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Even now, I sometimes run over in my mind all the men who catcall me the moment I step out my door, the men who corner me on subway platforms, the man who reached under my dress at a parade once and slipped his finger beneath my underwear. I think of my father complaining to my mother that the dishes weren't washed, or of the time they fought over something stupid and he called her a camel to shut her up. I grew up with dozens of boys who would one day become the same kind of man. Sometimes the world is one long chain of men from whose anger there is no protection, an obstacle course I run to stay safe.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.”
Source: Aquarium
“Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.”
“Even now I wonder if it was my poor sense of self that first generated my poor sense of my people. Or was it my poor sense of my people that inflamed a poor sense of myself? Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer is less important than the cycle it describes. Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist