Even Quotes

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

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.

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.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.