E.B. White Quotes

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

You have everything when you embrace the full circle of life.

No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot.

For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?

Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here.

My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

How do you file a restraining order against sadness?

Live the meaning of life

I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

New Year’s cards from friends — colored patterns of my life

The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

Never let a man stay the night. Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

don't sulk. you're acting just like a man.

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.

Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.

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Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.

Poor practices are blunting email marketing’s effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.

We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Every second vibrates within our Present moment, our now. In one split second of awareness, we can create a Life full of Light, Joy, and Love.

The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.

and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

There you are! Aren't you precious?

She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.

Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.

[W]ithout the League, you'd be nothing.

My membership has given me everything I've ever wanted.

...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.