Even Quotes

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.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.