E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Except, now that I don’t have a car, I can’t really make good on my birthday promise.” Sydney thought about it for several moments. “Well. I’ve got a car.” An hour later, I vowed I’d never make fun of that Mazda again.”
“Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”
“Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.”
“Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.”
Source: Complete Works
“EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.”
“Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities”
“Exceptional leaders transfer their vision and aspirations to their team by the way they project themselves.”
“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.”
Source: Me and the Devil
“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”
“Exceptional people are resilient. Resilient people react to failure by finding something they can cling to, some hope for the future.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.”
“Exceptional people deserve special concessions.”
Source: Truisms and essays
“Exceptional people don't shun tests of their strength and determination -- they relish them.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.”
“Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!”
“Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.”
“Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.”
“Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.”
Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.”
“Exceptions A permanent source of disappointment”
“Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.”
Source: The Lost Sisterhood
“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.”
“Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Excerpt:
“… building blocks of our world-Mothers.”
“Our moms are who instill the virtues and vices within each of us.”
“Women are like teabags, they show their true colors when put in hot water.”
“In spite of all the mishandling, they strive and survive and manage to stand tall.”
“Be a Diva in charge of your own life and ignore those who hold you back; they don’t live your life.”
“Divorce might make you lose a few ‘friends’ but it will help you find your ‘life’!”
Source: WE WOMEN WONDER: Dreams, Desires, Struggles, & Triumphs
“Excerpt from page 113
[On Malaysia's Prime Minster's anti-capitalism and anti-globalization policies in September 1997]
"Ah, excuse me, Mahathir, but what planet are you living on? You talk about participating in globalization as if it were a choice you had. Globalization isn't a choice. It's a reality. There is just one global market today, and the only way you can grown at the speed your people want to grow is by tapping into the global stock and bond markets, by seeking out multinationals to invest in your country and by selling into the global trading systems what your factories produce. And the most basic truth about globalization is: No one is in charge. You keep looking for someone to complain to, someone to take the heat off your markets, someone to blame. Well, guess what, Mahathir, there's no one on the other end of the phone!"
"The Electronic Heard cuts no one any slack... The herd is not infallible. It makes mistakes too. It overreacts and it overshoots. But if your fundamentals are basically sound, the herd will eventually recognize this and come back. They herd is never stupid for too long. In the end, it always responds to good governance and good economic management.”
Source: The Lexus and the Olive Tree
“Excerpt from page 3 of "Wicked Washington"
Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life:
And close and dangerous calls were almost my last name. Yet I felt as comfortable among the street hustlers, junkies, thieves, and criminals of D.C. as I did dining with my
white-collar, college-pedigreed friends over filet mignon, Maine lobster, and strawberry cheesecake at LaMermaid
Seafood Restaurant.”
Source: Wicked Washington
“Excerpt from the endnote on the audiobook read by the author: "There have been so many interpretations of the story that I am not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. the only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then, any interpretation you like, if it is yours, that's the right one. Because what's in a book is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Excerpt From the Poem-" Prayer"
Such a pleasant,
And heartfelt task.
To him implore,
And mercies ask.”
Source: There is a God
“Excerpt from "Work"
And if you cannot work
with love
but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave
your work and sit at
the gate of the temple
and take alms
of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread
with indifference, you bake
a bitter bread,
that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing
of the grapes,
your grudge distills
a poison
in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels,
and love not the singing,
you muffle man’s ears
to the voices of the day
and the voices
of the night.”
“Excerpt—
So, let’s review, Doc…
To maintain this ‘effortlessly’ youthful appearance of mine, I’ll need to schedule hormone therapy, use a daily regimen of retinol and vitamin C for my face, apply cream tighteners for my neck, engage in about a thousand facial exercises a day, and
even sleep on my head for good anti-gravity measure.
Oh, and let’s not forget walking around the house with a pulsating light laser on my face. And of course, maintaining a rabbit-ona-food-strike diet and drinking water until I’m sick of the taste.
No more wine, just CBD mood relaxers, and don’t forget the waist cincher! The more out of breath, the better.
There’s minoxidil for my shedding hair, collagen supplements, and protein peptides. Then there are the laser treatments, bi-annual Botox, and facial injections.
And let’s not forget, the copper socks for ankle swelling, magnetic bracelets and rings, and higher strength readers every few months.
Not to mention, keeping a handy lighted magnifier near my bed for emergencies and replacement pillowcases for the heat and sweat eruptions.
For the aches and pains, there’s Ibuprofen for my back. And let’s not forget, to keep arthritis at bay (and keep my hands from looking like a turnip), hot paraffin wax—and giant sock and foot booties at bedtime... all while staring at the ceiling like a zombie at 3 am with my neck floating in a tsunami of sweat.
...And just when I thought I could relax, I’ve got to try my best to make painful sex winces sound like erotic pleasure groans,
(all for his precious ego).
Resist the urge to give my hubby just one good slap square across his face for just being a man. And not be pissed at his ability to jump up, take a shower, shave, and be out the door in 20 minutes.
And most importantly, every single day, deliver a smile for the cameras and say, “I feel freaking awesome”!!!
So, Doc, when do I get to kick back and enjoy life?”
Source: Help! My Face Is Falling!: Aging: No Grace Required
“Excerpted From Chapter 18
The most famous sign in the world was only a few hundred yards above me, and the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. The light bulbs surrounding the letters must have been controlled by a timer of some kind because they were off now. But what shocked me was the scale. I was used to seeing the sign from a distance. From this perspective there was no sense of the word HOLLYWOODLAND. All I saw were gigantic letters looming dimly above me in the moonlight like ancient monoliths erected in tribute to the gods of some long-extinct tribe.
A primal feeling of foreboding prickled the hairs on the back of my neck. I could imagine the traveler of an earlier age coming across Stonehenge in the dark and experiencing a similar sensation.”
Source: The Truth Be Told
“Excerpts from an autobiography I’ll never write: Around the time I was nine years old, I carried around a marble notebook everywhere I went. It had the words, “The Purpose of Life” written in sharpie where my name should’ve been. That notebook was sacred to me. I had conjured up this belief that I’d inevitably be whisked away into the afterlife once I fully discovered and was able to coherently express the “purpose of life” on those pages. In a most whimsical, literal and childlike way, I believed that there simply would no longer be a point to my existence. This wasn’t cynical or depressive at all, it just seemed… logical. Like when a student finishes their test before everyone else so they get to leave the room and go play or do whatever else they want. My notebook was filled with synonyms. I’ve always loved synonyms. I once tried to list out every single word I knew in the English language. You can imagine how overwhelming it was when I realized that one word would remind me of twenty others… That’s when I learned just how expansive this world is. I found that when small ripples turned into tsunamis of information in my mind, I felt most alive and my curiosity grew and grew. It was then I also discovered my love for figuratively drowning in words. I never finished that notebook. I decided right then that I’d pretend not to know the answers so I’d get to stay a little longer.”
“Exceso de palabras no da entendimiento. Provoca, a lo sumo, dolor de cabeza.”
“Excess always carries it's own retributions.”
Source: Works: Pascarel
“Excess always carries its own retribution.”
Source: Princess Napraxine
“Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.”
“Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.”
“Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.”
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Excess in eating leads to laziness in fulfilling obligatory duties such as prayer, as well as other recommended acts. It increases the likelihood of disobedience by instigating desires and reducing self-control. A person is more likely to become angry, for example, after having overindulged. The mind also functions less effectively on a full stomach, and this has been confirmed by scientific research. When the stomach is full, more blood goes to that area to process the food, leaving less blood available for the brain.”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.”
“Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.”
“Excess is pain, neglect is pain, balance is comfort.”
“Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.”
“Excess is the common substitute for energy.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Excess is the enemy of excellence.”