Even Quotes

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.