E Quotes
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“Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.”
“Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience.”
“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
Source: A book of prefaces
“Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader”
“Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.”
“Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”
Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
“Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”
“Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.”
Source: Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.”
“Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.”
“Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Every real story is a never ending story.”
“Every real teacher is myself in disguise.”
“Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.”
“Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.”
“Every reality has multiple coordinates. The combination of these coordinates creates perceptions.”
Source: Quantraz
“Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.”
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”
“Every realm of nature is marvelous.”
Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]
“Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is the essence of liberation. That is, freedom begins the moment we forget ourselves.”
Source: The Eyes & the Impossible
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
“Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.”
“Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.”
“Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.”
Source: History of the Devil
“Every recent death dredges up every other loss, which compounds the grief. That old hurt comes right back...”
“Every recipe in this book has the potential to help someone in need. The recipes work in many different ways, depending on the individual's circumstances," she explains, "but the recipe for Orange Blossom Cake is special. The person who takes the first bite of the cake will see a vision of the sweetest moment of happiness that awaits them in life.”
Source: The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.”
“Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.”
“Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.”
“Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one." There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one." You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.”
“Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.”
“Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.”
“Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.”
“Every reflection is a mirror, revealing both the light we embrace and the shadows we resist.”
Source: When the Human Remembers
“Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.”
Source: War and Peace
“Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.”
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
“Every reform was once a private opinion.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.”
“Every reformation ruins somebody.”
Source: Half a Million of Money
“Every reformer is a public servant, but not every public servant is a reformer.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.”
“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”
Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings