E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“Examining our behaviors and thought patterns demands sustained, uninterrupted self-work, and the fullness of our everyday lives and the finite attention spans that rove through them sometimes appear engineered to thwart personal investigations. For many, such an undertaking is undesirable in any case: Those of us content with our lives are not compelled to confront or interrogate our habits, lifestyles, or underlying beliefs. Contentment doesn't incentivize change--it does everything in its power to forestall it. But those of us learning to survive in the ill-disposed, unaccommodating terrain of afterlives--marooned on the desert islands we have little affinity for--must open ourselves up to it.”
Source: What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
“Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.”
Source: The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel
“Examining the background of anyone can bring skeletons to our attention; a blot on the landscape can mar all what pleases the eye. This is how Malcolm Price was perceived by those who would stand back in fear of what he was all about, yet nothing could be further from the truth!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Examining the tangle of assorted wires and leads, there seemed to be every cable ever made, but none with the right combination.
Frustration brought him to the boil, as he yanked and tugged at this unyielding ball. He only succeeded in winding them into ever-tighter knots.”
Source: New Reform
“examining the
whole horizonless question of desire”
Source: Falling Awake
“Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“Examining this history, it is clear that AA has been extraordinarily effective at influencing public opinion and policy toward a favorable view of its ideas. What is missing from this account is notable as well: these strides were achieved without any triggering event, such as a well-designed study, that might support the organization’s claims of efficacy. Most of AA’s claims were simply grandfathered in, collecting legitimacy in a sort of echo chamber of reciprocal mentions that often featured the same handful of names.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.”
“Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections”
“Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Example has far more followers than reason.”
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
“Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.”
“Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.”
“Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.”
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
“Example is better than following it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Example is better than precept.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Example is leadership.”
“Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”
“Example is more powerful than precept.”
Source: Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Source: Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr
“Example is the best precept.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
“Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.”
“Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.”
“Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.”
Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance
“Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.”
“Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.”
Source: Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.”
“Examples are best set when you set one.”
“Examples are few of men ruined by giving.”
“Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.”
“Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.”
Source: Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each part appears to be a smaller image of the whole. They are found in the branch-like patterns of river systems, lightning, and blood vessels. They can be seen in snowflakes, seashells, crystals, and mountain ranges. We can even see the holographic and fractal-like nature of reality in the structure of the Universe itself, as the clusters of galaxies and dark matter resemble the neurons in our brain, the mycelium network of fungi, as well as the network of the man-made Internet.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.”
Source: War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
“Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”
“Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".”
“Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.”
“Examples of this type of propaganda include the false and debunked portrayal of Trump as having mocked a disabled person, the false claim that Trump supported white supremacists and Nazis at the Charlottesville Virginia riots and the false claim that Trump supported a “Muslim ban.”
Source: Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism
“Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.”
“Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.”
“Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.”
“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”
“Exams don’t measure your worth; they reveal your willingness to rise, review, and rewrite your own limits.”
“Exams make the students tired and exam-duties make the teachers exhausted. So, there should be an official vacation for at least 15 days after the end of mid-term & final exams in private universities so that the students and teachers can relax and freshen themselves up!”
“Exasperated, Marrill rolled her eyes. “Probably? That doesn’t make any sense.” He grinned. “Welcome to the Pirate Stream.”
Source: The Map to Everywhere
“Exasperated, you finally said, 'You think I'm not worried too? Of course I'm worried. What I don't need is your worry on top of mine. I need your support”
Source: The Argonauts
“Exatamente! A questão de Hachi já está resolvida para Satoru. Por isso, ele consegue ter lugar no coração para o Hachi e para mim. Mas para ti é diferente, não é, Kosuke? Só agora soubeste que o Hachi morreu. Podes ter absorvido a notícia racionalmente, mas ainda não o sentes de verdade.
Para superar a morte de um gato, é preciso passar pelo luto. Ouvindo assim, de repente, sobre a morte de um gato do qual não se tinha voltado a ter notícias pode-se pensar que é uma pena, mas é difícil sentir realmente a tristeza.
E o problema, Kosuke, é que queres que eu assuma o lugar do Hachi. Sinto muito. Eu, que sou amado por Satoru como Nana, não vou poder servir de substituto.”
Source: The Travelling Cat Chronicles