Top 100 Is Ever Quotes
#1. Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.
Laura Lippman
#2. No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.
James A. Michener
#3. None of us is ever ready," he said. "For knighthood?" "For death.
George R R Martin
#4. It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
Gertrude Atherton
#5. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
Anthony Hope
#6. Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#8. The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.
James Gleick
#10. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,
active, and immediate.
Washington Irving
#12. [Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is ... [ever since Satan has] had it in for women.
Hugh Nibley
#13. It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.
Stephanie Barron
#14. In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.
Regina Brett
#15. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#16. I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#17. Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly.
Charles Dickens
#18. That's what terrorism is, basically - pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.
Dorothy Gilman
#19. If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.
Mona Charen
#21. They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.
Jamie Schoffman
#22. I think we spent close to thirty Euros pumping change into a game called Area 51. If the earth is ever attacked by aliens, you're welcome to stand behind me.
C.J. Roberts
#23. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
Jeffrey Fry
#24. Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!
Heloise
#25. He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon
#26. When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
Pink
#27. Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
Helena Blavatsky
#28. What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
Charlotte Bunch
#29. little of consequence is ever accomplished alone. High achievement is nearly always a joint effort,
David McCullough
#30. No one is ever satisfied where he is ... Only the children know what they're looking for ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#31. The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.
Lynn Coady
#32. Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
Aeschylus
#35. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace
#37. It occurred to me, not for the first time, that if Britain is ever to sort itself out, it is going to require a lot of euthanasia.
Bill Bryson
#38. But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.
Margaret Fuller
#39. No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
Neal A. Maxwell
#40. Nothing is ever lost, nor broken in vain.
It is the tapestry of life, a picture that has been framed.
Natalie Ducey
#41. anger is the heart beating faster. fear is the stomach tightening and untightening. lust is blood swelling between your legs. flesh is ever-changing, flesh is self-aware.
Daniel Polansky
#42. Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
Diane Arbus
#43. Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Terry Pratchett
#44. Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus
#45. In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
Theodore H. White
#46. There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
Baron De Montesquieu
#47. In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground
relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived
except in relation to a background.
Alan W. Watts
#48. Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.
Sara Teasdale
#49. Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
Eminem
#50. The feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.
Inazo Nitobe
#51. Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
Oscar Wilde
#52. All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.
Ernest Holmes
#53. Nothing in the world is ever really nothing, and everything is possible in some way ...
Lauren Oliver
#54. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.
Marisa De Los Santos
#55. Machiavelli believed it was better to be feared than loved, because attachment is easily severed, but the terror of pain is ever present.
J.M. Darhower
#56. In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
Thomas Carlyle
#57. I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
#58. Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Will Rogers
#59. The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress ... Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.
Winston Churchill
#60. No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?
Robertson Davies
#61. I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.
Ralph Bunche
#62. Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.
Rush Limbaugh
#63. There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. No moment is ever isolated
With history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.
Mark Jarman
#66. I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better - the knack of making people like me.
L.M. Montgomery
#67. I don't think anything, or anyone, is ever going to keep me away from you. I love you way too much. You're my heart, my world, my light.
Jay McLean
#68. No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
Kenneth Grahame
#69. The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
Sara Paretsky
#71. The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell
#72. A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#73. Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold ... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again
Nicholas Sparks
#75. In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow.
Salman Khan
#76. Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
Jessica Alba
#77. It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#78. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
#79. No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.
Maajid Nawaz
#80. Nothing is ever black and white, kitten," he reminded her, allowing his claws to slice out to touch her skin. "I can use my claws to protect, but I can use the same claws to rip out an enemy's throat.
Nalini Singh
#82. The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
A.B. Simpson
#83. The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
Ernest Holmes
#84. I do not think there can be any defense for the view that knowledge is ever undesirable.
Bertrand Russell
#85. Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.
David Ogilvy
#86. No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi
#88. No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Paul Valery
#90. No amount of money or possessions is ever going to make you feel fulfilled. No amount will ever be enough. No amount will ever make you happy.
C. Kancel
#91. God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.
Jim Berg
#92. You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'
Rihanna
#93. Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
#94. What is that which cannot be contained by volume,for it has neither height, nor breadth, nor length, nor width? It constantly weighs on us, but its weight cannot be determined. It is a liquid, but it's viscosity is ever changing. Although we measure it, it cannot be measured.
Marcia E. Letaw
#95. Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Benjamin Franklin
#96. Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#97. Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see.
Surya Das
#98. No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Loretta Young
#99. The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
Oliver Goldsmith
#100. No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.
Peter Ackroyd
