Top 100 As Ever Quotes
#1. Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to attempt to reason with her would be about as fruitful as to try to christianize a vulture.
Mervyn Peake
#2. The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.
George B. McClellan
#3. The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.
Chapman Cohen
#5. And I realize that love is as ever-changing as a sky or as an ocean: always there, but not always sunny or clean or calm.
Katy Evans
#6. The words were still in his hearing as just spoken - distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life - when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone.
Charles Dickens
#7. Larkin found himself next to her now, his arm wrapped around her shoulders as if to comfort, though why he had no idea, for she seemed as calm as ever. Somehow, deep down, he knew that it was all a charade, a mask that she fitted in place as a means of protection. It wasn't easy for her to trust.
Chani Lynn Feener
#8. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#10. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.
Rudyard Kipling
#11. Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.
Clare Boothe Luce
#12. Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.
Lord Chesterfield
#13. he'd looked as tall and cool as ever, but a faint panicked light in his blue eyes had put her oddly in mind of a cat that had just had an inadvertent ride in a dryer.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#14. I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
Barack Obama
#15. The story ends. It was written for several reasons. Nine of them are secrets. The tenth is that one should never cease considering human love, which remains as grisly and golden as ever, no matter what is tattooed upon the warm tympanic page.
Donald Barthelme
#16. I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Edgar Allan Poe
#17. Shane Mosley is a dangerous fighter. He is bigger than Manny, strong and he still has his speed. He has never been stopped. He can take anyone's best punch and come back as strong as ever. He's so resilient. You can't hurt him.
Bob Arum
#18. As ever, Sue was on the phone, and I could tell by her posture - she was half laying on the desk - that she was crying. I knew this was no distress but joy: She always cried when her boyfriend admitted that he was a complete idiot.
Melissa Bank
#19. Where are you going?" she asked him. "Somewhere beautiful," he said. "Where all wars cease, where God sees goodness, not religion. Where the grass is as ever green as that I knew in Eire.
Heather Graham
#20. The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#21. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
Betsy Cornwell
#22. I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me.
Lian Hearn
#24. In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.
Erica Jong
#25. Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
Edna Ferber
#26. I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.
Robert Duvall
#27. A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
Jeffrey Kluger
#28. [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
Joseph Hall
#29. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.
Becky Wade
#30. I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.
Rivers Cuomo
#31. The rooftops of Ankh-Morpork sprouted a fine array of gargoyles even in normal times, but now they were alive with as ghastly an array of faces as ever were seen outside a woodcut about the evils of gin-drinking among the non-woodcut-buying classes.
Terry Pratchett
#32. As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest, - 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sentiment.
Thomas Pynchon
#33. You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore."
"Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.
J.K. Rowling
#34. His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as sharp as ever. Sometimes the waves would cover them, but they remained beneath the waters, hard and black and slimy.
George R R Martin
#35. As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me."
"Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?"
"Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.
Catherynne M Valente
#36. He announced to me that as soon as ever he grows up, he will get married, just because he wants to have little children, whom he likes. 'There is only one trouble,' he added, very seriously, 'I shall have to live all the time with my wife; there is no escape.
Aimee Dostoyevsky
#37. A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at.
Ezra Pound
#38. Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.
[Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]
George Herbert
#39. There's one thing the Brothers Grimm got very, very wrong: There's no such thing as "ever after." That would require that the story ever end.
Seanan McGuire
#40. Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.
Miyuki Miyabe
#41. He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.
Patrick Suskind
#42. My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
Gabrielle Giffords
#43. I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.
Steven Gaines
#44. The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.
Robert Gottlieb
#45. I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
#46. My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
Ani DiFranco
#47. The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
#48. A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding
#49. Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.
Ozzy Osbourne
#50. I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.
Jane Austen
#51. A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
Henry David Thoreau
#53. The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf
#54. But love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever.
L. Frank Baum
#55. I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you'll see walking around the streets.
Tia Artemis
#56. And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
D.H. Lawrence
#57. This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.
John Wilmot
#58. As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#59. Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.
Robert Rankin
#60. When Dick was killed last week he looked like that, Flapping along the fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat ... . How many dead? As many as ever you wish. Don't count 'em; they're too many. Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
Siegfried Sassoon
#61. I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady Gaga
#62. Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.
Mia Farrow
#63. What doesn't kill you makes you CRAZY, GRUMPY, MAD AS EVER? NO it makes you STRONGER! Yep,you'll get there eventually!
Karen Gibbs
#64. Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Ming-Dao Deng
#65. A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
Michael Caine
#66. In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
William Shakespeare
#67. And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
Mary McGrory
#68. And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.
Jimmy Hill
#69. The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff
#70. He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.
Christopher Paolini
#71. I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
Marisha Pessl
#72. I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#73. It will be the same silence, the same as ever, murmurous with muted lamentation, panting and exhaling of impossible sorrow, like distant laughter, and brief spells of hush, as of one buried before his time. Long or short, the same silence. Then I resurrect and begin again.
Samuel Beckett
#74. We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott
#75. A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
Leo Burnett
#76. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever - apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.
Yoko Ogawa
#77. Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
Samuel Pepys
#78. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
#79. Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
Tony Blair
#80. If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.
Richard Dawkins
#81. Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever.
B.M. Bower
#82. ALREADY KNOW the camp on the moors. It was here that Himmelstoss gave Tjaden his education. But now I know hardly anyone here; as ever, all is altered. There are only a few people that I have occasionally met before. I go through the routine mechanically. In the evenings I generally
Erich Maria Remarque
#83. Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya," upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake.
Jules Verne
#84. I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
Christopher Paolini
#85. This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.
Marek Halter
#86. Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction
its essence
has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
#87. Belfastas uncivilised as ever
savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.
E. M. Forster
#88. I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.
Don Newcombe
#89. Thalia ignored him as usual (which no doubt meant she thought he was as cool as ever).
Rick Riordan
#90. Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England.
Maryrose Wood
#91. I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.
Warren Spahn
#92. We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
Alan Greenspan
#93. I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it's been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn't know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole.
Kekla Magoon
#95. Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.
Marguerite Kelly
#96. You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
Jane Austen
#98. Her voice was as soft and sexy as ever. Those wide-set
blue eyes every bit as distrustful as they'd been during his last
encounter with her, which meant that chip on her shoulder, the
one he'd tried so desperately to dislodge, remained firmly in place.
Jackie Braun
#100. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
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