Ever Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.