E.B. White Quotes
Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.
In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.
Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.
The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.
For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.
Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.
I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.
Thank you for giving me another chance.""Thank you for deserving one.
This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.
Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.
Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won’t—only that He’ll sustain us when the tribulation comes.
As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.
I’m in love with my corporate girlfriend, with the Cyclops heart
It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")
Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience
Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.
At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.
In general, ' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.
It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.
He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.
I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.
When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.
My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.
She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.
Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.
Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.
Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?
But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.
These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.
She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.
Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?