E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Everyone thought she was funny and kind and a quick wit, and no one thought her the least bit unattractive, but at the same time, no one was dazzled by her beauty, stunned into speechlessness by her presence, or moved to write poetry in her honor.
Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.”
Source: The Duke And I
“Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.”
“Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.”
Source: Undone
“Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”
“Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.”
“Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.”
“Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.”
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”
“Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'”
“Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.”
“Everyone told me, "Don't ever talk about international stuff," and "Don't do long-form content online," and "Don't get too serious in news," and "Don't be too heavy" - all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff.”
“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country”
“Everyone traveling alone is just on their phones the whole time.”
“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”
Source: Every You, Every Me
“Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.”
Source: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
“Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.”
“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.”
“Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs. They come up to you and say "You gotta dance! you gotta dance!" And then I dance, and they're like, "Not like that!"”
“Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.”
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.”
Source: The Rebel
“Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.”
“Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.”
“Everyone truly does have God-given gifts. Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are.”
“Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.”
“Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read”
“Everyone undercuts, this is how you save Time and money.”
“Everyone underestimates the kick to the groin.”
“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.”
“Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.”
“Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.”
“Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.”
“Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.”
“Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.”
“Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.”
“Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class -- in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn't even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.”
“Everyone used to laugh at him because he was the first one to do it. This was all new to people and it took a bit for everyone to get used to it. Then… yes, you’ve guessed, I too dyed my hair and other people followed suit as well and the punk explosion was about to hit the scene in a big way.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.”
“Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.”
“Everyone uses soap, but it’s a rather new human invention, and as much as we use it, we probably need to cancel out the wiping out of our natural oils with some lotions.”
Source: sciVive
“Everyone uses the brain at every moment, but we use it unconsciously. We let it run in the background without realizing the power we have to reshape the brain. When you begin to exercise your power, the everyday brain, which we call the baseline brain, starts to move in the direction of super brain.”
“Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.”
“Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.”
Source: YOUR Invisible Power: Create the Life You Want, a Hampton Roads Collection
“Everyone walking this planet has a compelling God-given purpose. It’s unique to you. No one else can pull it off. It’s yours. It fulfills your deepest need for significance.”
Source: Dare To Live Greatly: The Courage To Live A Powerful Christian Life
“Everyone walks everywhere in country towns, especially the children. Although most are unaware of its impact, it automatically connects bodies to the land. All the temperature changes are keenly felt when little divides the body from its surroundings.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Everyone wanna tweet but they don't know who to follow!”
“Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.”
Source: Stolen
“Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?”
Source: Wild Orchids
“Everyone wanted Maggie." He smiled. "But some of us were smart enough to know you can break a wild horse, but you can never trust it.”
Source: Hard Rain
“Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."”
“Everyone wanted to be an Art Girl. I wanted to be an Art Girl.”
Source: Severance