E Quotes
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“Every night she bore witness to what she could never have. It wasn't living. It was torture.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.”
Source: Kissed by an Angel: Kissed by an Angel; The Power of Love; Soulmates
“Every night she was shocked by the many uses of peaches. The women knew how to make anything out of them---peach-and-pecan soup, peach salsa, peach-and-onion fritters, peach-and-amaretto jelly. They combined them with the produce of their vegetable garden, which lay behind the men’s dorm. When the men cooked, it was less creative---burgers, sometimes steak. But there was always corn on the cob, cucumber-and-parsley salad with cider vinegar, beans, mild white cheese crumbled on tortillas and cooked over the open fire.”
Source: Peaches
“Every night she wrote in that ledger.
Every day he saw more signs that the ladies did not consider her one of their own.
Every instinct he had screamed one thing.
Lady Sagerra was a spy.”
Source: The Traitor's Kiss
“Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Every night, the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Every night, the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward the morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.”
“Every night
there's the absence of light
but, no matter how dark it gets
one cannot end
the spark of the sun
on the next morning
- she is filled with faith”
Source: ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS
“Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.”
“Every night was a somber, adults-only slumber party - no giggles or whispers, just lots of coughing and farting and snoring and groaning, the sounds and smells of too many stressed-out of people packed into too small a place.”
Source: The Leftovers
“Every night, we should make it a point to take some time to recall our day before sleeping. When we don’t do this, we are unable to make amends for the things that we did wrong.”
“Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving our thanks, any news we could think of, and our names. This whole system of northern hospitality was a gigantic chain, for while we were eating this man’s beans, he was undoubtedly farther up the trail, eating somebody else’s.”
Source: Mrs. Mike
“Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!”
“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.”
“Every night, when I go to sleep in this big lonely haveli, I pray
to God to let me live one more day so I can see her getting the
justice she deserved”
Source: The Tenth Riddle
“Every night, when you stand outside and gaze upon the stars, you are bathing in time as well as light”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?”
“Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.”
“Every night, it's a bakery on the bus. It's a curse, because I talk about how much I love cake, people bring me cake. And now I just found out I'm diabetic, so I'm like, are you kidding me?!”
“Every night, my girlfriend comes home from work, and she brings with her a houseplant. She's like, 'Anthony, I had to pick this up. We need a houseplant in our apartment.' And every night, I make her return it. I say, 'No way, baby. You can't take care of a houseplant. You couldn't even keep your baby alive.'”
“Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.”
“Every 'No' you hear births a hustle.”
“Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.”
“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”
“Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.”
“Every noble activity makes room for itself.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pindar (Illustrated)
“Every noble human need has a divine provision. But life is only truly wonderful for all of us when each of us choose to be a channel of divine grace to others at their moments of need.”
“Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –”
“Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.”
Source: Table-talk
“Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.”
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Every nobody is a somebody to someone”
“Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies”
“Every nook and corner of nature is home to life. The Earth provides freely to all.”
“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011
“Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.”
Source: Ernst
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.”
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”
Source: madame bovary
“Every note has to come out clean.”
“Every notes is my suffering where I write the words which cuts the wisdom insights, but the outsights let's to crush down to soil.”
“Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head”
“Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong”
Source: The Cream of the Jest
“Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.”
“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”