Even Quotes

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.