Quotes about evening page 42
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I'm not even supposed to be here today.”
Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Simon, pg. 8
Variant: Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Fallen Angels (2011)
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts
David Foster Wallace book The Pale King
Source: The Pale King (2011)
Context: "Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire."
Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”
Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic
Source: Practical Magic
“Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
The first two sentences of this statement first appear as attributed to France in the 1990s, but the full statement is earlier attributed to William Feather, as quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wm0jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&dq=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qYJOU9dAzoXRAYumgcAP&ved=0CMsCEOgBMDQ <br class="br">Misattributed
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 101.
Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert
Source: Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”
Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
Dan Gutman (1954) American children's writer
“Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Whose Body?
Source: Whose Body?
“I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1940s, Science and Religion (1941)
Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist
Source: Sailor Moon Stars, #3
“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006) Indonesian writer
Source: Gadis Pantai
Jim Butcher book Changes
Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26
Context: Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.