E.B. White Quotes

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Kids these days, right? Ignorant and in love with their ignorance.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.

It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

What simple andordinary lives we live, underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.

Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear

I think I miss Ben, ” she told Lauren one night. “No, you don’t, ” Lauren said. “But sometimes, I really think I do.” Lauren sighed. “Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.

Because choices need time, the fulness of time, time being the horizontal axis of morality - you make a decision and then you wait and see, wait and see.

I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.

We change the future with every choice we make,

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

The only way I can keep clear of force is by justice. Far from being willing to execute his enemies, a real king must be willing to execute his friends.

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.

I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

Kissing her to keep her quiet was the best idea that he’d had all week. One hand drifted into her loose hair as she responded to each kiss, while the other caught her waist and held her close to him.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person, ' he said. 'You can never go home.

It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home.

So Merlyn sent you to me, " said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things -- to dig, and love your home. These are the true end of philosophy.

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible

He had placed the life of every one of his men before his own, and if that wasn’t the sign of a truly great leader, then he didn’t know what was.

It was about time she woke up to reality and realized that there was more to being a vampire than just feeding from blood.

Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Stop, breathe, look aroundand embrace the miracle of each day, the miracle of life.

Mindfulness is intimacy with all things.

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

When love comes, it comes indiscriminately.