Top 100 Everett Quotes
#1. Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!
Everett Dirksen
#2. I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
#3. I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.
J. Everett Prewitt
#4. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#5. Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
Daniel Everett
#6. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett
#7. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
Edward Everett
#8. In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
Edward Everett
#9. I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.
Patty Murray
#10. One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'
Tom Everett Scott
#11. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.
Percival Everett
#12. From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
Rupert Everett
#13. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#14. When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
Edward Everett
#15. As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
Hugh Everett III
#16. There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
C. Everett Koop
#17. I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
Everett Dirksen
#18. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Carl Everett
#19. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rupert Everett
#20. I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me.
Mark Everett Stone
#21. When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
C. Everett Koop
#22. [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.
Hugh Everett III
#23. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
Everett Dirksen
#24. If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
Rupert Everett
#25. Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.
Everett Peacock
#26. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.
Kevin Michel
#28. Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army.
Edward Everett
#29. Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
Rupert Everett
#30. This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
Ossian Everett Mills
#31. Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
Tom Everett Scott
#33. When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
Kenny Everett
#34. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.
Rupert Everett
#35. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
Rupert Everett
#36. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett
#37. The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
C. Everett Koop
#38. I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.
Rupert Everett
#39. I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Everett Ruess
#40. I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert Everett
#41. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.
Everett Ruess
#43. I'm liminal. What are you saying? What, you thought you were normal?
Ayize Jama-Everett
#44. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
C. Everett Koop
#45. As the distance of migration increases," wrote the migration scholar Everett Lee, "the migrants become an increasingly superior group.
Isabel Wilkerson
#46. I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.
Everett Ruess
#49. While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31)
W.L. Rusho
#51. Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to ... But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.
Mark Oliver Everett
#52. Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
#53. The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.
Rupert Everett
#54. There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen
#55. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
Edward Everett Hale
#56. You all know what Class Seven does?" "You blow shit up," Travers supplied in a long-suffering voice that drew snickers from the rest of the group. "All kinds of shit," Everett growled with relish, the gleam returning to his eyes in full force.
Abigail Roux
#59. There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
C. Everett Koop
#60. I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.
Everett Ruess
#61. Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; ... drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.
Edward Everett
#62. I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.
Rupert Everett
#63. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to love doing the evil laugh: 'Mwahaha!' I could really do it! And there's a little bit of that inside everybody. Still, as a kid, it was like my favorite thing.
Tom Everett Scott
#64. There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
#65. Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.
Hugh Everett III
#66. Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
Everett Reimer
#67. I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.
Rupert Everett
#68. Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
C. Everett Koop
#70. If your product solves real problems, has a simple, intuitive interaction and an appealing, easy-to-read visual design, yet people aren't using it, chances are your product is failing to communicate at a human level.
Everett N. McKay
#71. But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
Everett Ruess
#72. This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!
Edward Everett
#73. In my experience, nice guys are boring, and bad guys are fun to play.
Tom Everett Scott
#74. But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen
#76. Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.
Rupert Everett
#77. I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.
Bridget Everett
#78. Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.
Rupert Everett
#79. Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.
Percival Everett
#80. You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.
Rupert Everett
#81. If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
C. Everett Koop
#82. I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.
Rupert Everett
#84. The adult was Eric "Rusty" Everett, thirty-seven, a physician's assistant working with Dr. Ron Haskell, whom Rusty often thought of as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because, Rusty would have explained, he so often remains behind the curtain while I do the work.
Stephen King
#85. Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.
Kenny Everett
#86. Blushes and sighs are all very pretty, but soft words butter no parsnips.
Alyssa Everett
#87. Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Guillermo Del Toro
#88. The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
C. Everett Koop
#89. Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
C. Everett Koop
#90. People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.
Ronald Everett Capps
#91. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
#92. Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
Edward Everett
#93. Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.
Edward Everett
#94. Setting the flowers, roots and all, aside, Millie crossed her arms over her chest. Don't insult my intelligence, Everett. You wouldn't be bringing me flowers or children if something of a disastrous nature hadn't occurred.
Jen Turano
#95. I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
Rupert Everett
#96. Man was not intended to live alone ... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.
John Everett Millais
#97. I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Everett Dirksen
#98. But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.
Mik Everett
#99. Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal successfully with today's domestic and personal problems, not to mention those international issues on which our very lives depend.
Everett Case
#100. I think you're just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I'm afraid I'll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away.
Ann Everett
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