Even Quotes
8871 quotes by 5762 authors
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was…
— Chinua Achebe
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to…
— Margaret Atwood
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
— Saint Augustine
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the…
— Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think…
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only…
— Sri Aurobindo
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
— Alfred Austin
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
— Teresa of Avila
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and…
— Teresa of Avila
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
— Teresa of Avila
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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…
— Sai Baba
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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…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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