#even

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. ↗

— Learned Hand

#aim #be careful #broad #careful #clog

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#days #did #directors #even #freedom

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#america #because #care #crisis #health care

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. ↗

— David Hare

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #poetry #prose #seventeenth

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#curiosity #discover #ends #even #idiot

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#any #best #change #day #defeated

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

#eventually #everyone #how #said #save

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#anything #before #contract #even #excuses

Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#age