Even Quotes

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

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.