Quotes about evening
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Edward O. Wilson photo
Stephen Sondheim photo

“They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

“I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Stephen Chbosky photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Brandon Sanderson photo

“We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

Anthony Kiedis photo
Libba Bray photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Deb Caletti photo
Walt Whitman photo
James Baldwin photo

“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Cary Grant photo

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

As quoted in "Even I want to be Cary Grant" by John Preston in The Telegraph (6 March 2005)]

Philip K. Dick photo
Frances Hodgson Burnett photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Rachel Caine photo
John Flanagan photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Karen Marie Moning photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Jack Kerouac photo

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.”

Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Context: No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

Anne Sexton photo
Charlaine Harris photo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo

“For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

St. 25.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)
Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rick Riordan photo
David Benioff photo

“God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Elie Wiesel photo
Jess Walter photo
Jean Baudrillard photo
Lou Holtz photo

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Martha Graham photo
Agatha Christie photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955) http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1955-martin-luther-king-jr-montgomery-bus-boycott
1950s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Cassandra Clare photo
Deb Caletti photo

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Sue Monk Kidd photo
Celeste Ng photo
Joe Meno photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein in a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in "Einstein in no-sock shock" http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9555&feedId=online-news_rss20, New Scientist (15 July 2006)
Attributed in posthumous publications

Jodi Picoult photo
Ayn Rand photo
Sylvia Plath photo

“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Edmund Hillary photo
Meg Cabot photo

“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess in Waiting

Wisława Szymborska photo
William Gibson photo
Karl Pilkington photo

“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 2 Episode 2
On Life

Paulo Coelho photo
Thomas Hardy photo

“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Immanuel Kant photo

“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry

Cassandra Clare photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
David Nicholls photo
Sam Harris photo
Geoff Dyer photo

“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”

Geoff Dyer (1958) English writer

Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Raymond Carver photo
Rob Sheffield photo
Cinda Williams Chima photo

“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Raymond Carver photo
Bart D. Ehrman photo

“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”

Bart D. Ehrman (1955) American academic

Source: Forged: Writing in the Name of God

Bill McKibben photo

“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”

Bill McKibben (1960) American environmentalist and writer

Source: The Age of Missing Information

Jim Butcher photo
Joyce Meyer photo

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Nicholas Sparks photo
Jeanette Winterson photo

“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough”

Gut Symmetries (1997)
Context: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

Sarah Dessen photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Marguerite Yourcenar photo
Stephen King photo
David Levithan photo
John Stuart Mill photo
Ann Brashares photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Melissa de la Cruz photo