E.B. White Quotes
When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.
Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.They liked to run races for cheese.Mice were lots of fun to play with.Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!
Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.
Here's something you must know and don't forget it - animals never lie. They don't like, they don't put on disguises, and they are always true to what they are. That's why you can trust them.
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."-white oleander
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…
Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.
I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?
More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.
Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm.
I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?""You're thinking of religion, " he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.
Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?
The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's
Vikrant : "I want to taste honey pot, You are shy, free yourself, like an animal, feel like an animal, they don't know sin. Do they?
This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
Any entrepreneur with the title 'CEO' on his biz card has got a hell of a lot to learn yet.
My Wife, I get to keep you forever. ~Lucian Bane~
Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.
Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.
...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.
Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue, " I whispered. "Find out with me.
paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.
To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds, " 1954
How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?
The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.
Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White
He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.
Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?
Injured SoulFainted EyesReturningfrom where?Weary feetWeak armsTreadingtoward where?Struggledin vain battlesFightingdelusive enemiesErred bya deceptionThe ancient deception
Sometimes the truth stares us in the face, but we just choose not to look.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.
Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals
On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor - and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.
Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool.
brown life is an unbroken bearing of the weight and hollow of the active absence of brown life.
Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.
