Even Quotes

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.