Evenminded Quotes & Sayings

There are two ways to react to criticism and the wrong one is to be offended. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself. — Tim Cope

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it. — Carolina Herrera

The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Swann's father, an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts. Several times in the course of a year I would hear my grandfather tell at table the story, which never varied, of the behaviour of M. Swann the elder upon the death of his wife, by whose bedside he had watched day and night. My grandfather, who had not seen him for a long time, hastened to join him at the Swanns' family property on the outskirts of Combray, and managed to entice him for a moment, weeping profusely, out of the death-chamber, so that he should not be present when the body was laid in its coffin. They took a turn or two in the park, where there was a little sunshine. Suddenly M. Swann seized my grandfather — Marcel Proust

I wasn't fighting with Plushenko. I fought with myself and won — Alexei Yagudin

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. — Benjamin Barber

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life]. — Brian Evenson

You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war! — Rick Riordan

The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work. — Michelle Alexander

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. — William Bell

Love isn't static. If it's big enough, it changes to accommodate the good and the bad. — Tibby Armstrong

Why does February feel like one big Tuesday? — Todd Stocker

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature. — Heraclitus