E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average, the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week...That's ridiculous.”
Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.”
“Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.”
“Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.”
Source: ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more
“Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.”
“Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.”
“Every two or three generations the world gets vastly different, and the context in which you have to learn how to be a human being, or to have good relationships, or decide whether or not there is a God, or decide whether there’s such a thing as love, and whether it’s redemptive, become vastly different. And the structures with which you can communicate those dilemmas, or have characters struggle with them, seem to become appropriate and then inappropriate again and so on.”
“Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I`m always the new girl in the whorehouse.”
“Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”
“Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.”
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
“Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?”
“Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.”
“Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.”
“Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.”
Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.”
“Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.”
“Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.”
“Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.”
“Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.”
“Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.”
“Every undertaking should be begun with a definite view to God's glory, continued quietly, and ended without excitement or impatience.”
Source: The Royal Way of the Cross
“Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.”
“Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.”
“Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton
“Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.”
“Every uniform corrupts one's character.”
“Every union, every association of persons pursuing identical aims and aspirations, likewise furnishes numerous examples of such higher aims, which pursue not material but only moral rewards. The emulators are moved by the ambition to distinguish themselves, by the desire to serve the common cause. This type of ambition is a virtue, its pursuit promotes the general benefit, while also bringing the individual satisfaction. Ambition is harmful only if it is pursued to the detriment of the community or at the expense of others.”
Source: On the Political Position of Social-Democracy
“Every unique thing in nature is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
In geometric harmony of the cosmos there are ways that resemble, there are universal patterns, from blood vessels, to winter trees or to a river delta, from nautilus shell to spiral galaxy, from neurons in the brain to the cosmic web.
A whole universe of connections is in your mind – a universe within a universe – and one capable of reaching out to the other that gave rise to it. Billions of neurons touching billions of stars – surely spiritual.”
“Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for”
“Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.”
Source: Reveries on the Art of War
“Every universe exists over every other universe. Like a million pictures on tracing paper, all with slight variations within the same frame.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Every universe exists over every other universe. Like a million pictures on tracing paper, all with slight variations within the same frame. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universe. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe. With every decision you make. And traditionally it was thought that there could be no communication or transference between those worlds, even though they happen in the same space, even though they happen literally millimetres away from us.
'But what about us? We're doing that.'
'Exactly. I am here but I also know I am not here. I am also lying in a hospital in Paris, having an aneurysm. And I am also skydiving in Arizona. And travelling around southern India. And tasting wine in Lyon, and lying on a yacht off the Côte d'Azur.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it. And I thought that if you can’t be cool with that, then I wouldn’t hate you, but I might need some time for myself until we’ve had enough distance that I can imagine made-up worlds without you automatically appearing.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel
“Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”
“Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”
Source: The Accursed Kings: The strangled queen
“Every unjust man is unjust against his will.”
“Every unknown is a beginning'.”
“Every unknown, poor, infamous individual has a realistic untold story to tell but then only words sell.”
“Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.”
Source: Something to Hide
“Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.”
“Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life”
Source: The works
“Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.”
“Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.”