E.B. White Quotes

[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows.

The heartache of your brother and your best friend? I mean, Hayes if it's not your business, then whose business is it?

But what if Alex changes it all around?...Where does that leave you?...But really...what if she's right?

[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.

I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression.

The fact is I'm in a serious jam.

You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

[D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip!

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.

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.

There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Dark, primitive magic. Swords Against Death.

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.

Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy...Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage.

Kindness is the way you live your life every day.

Compassion is the way you live your life every day.

Compassion is a verb...It is the way you live your life every day.

Whenever you feel insignificant, remember that you can makea significant differencein the lives of others, particularly the less fortunate.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do, maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

Let kindness reveal your humanity.

The map? I will first make it.

I am compelled into this country.

Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, glowed and increased, and was suddenly extinguished in the little puffs of smoke and tired thoughts.

I feel rather a fool writing down my thoughts

Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast.

Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

She was completely alone, only the distant call of a bird telling her a world existed outside of her circle of pain.

Loneliness ia a human condition

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

This is the day the Lord has made, suck it up and rejoice.

I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes, ” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, " she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.

Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.