Even Quotes

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.