E.B. White Quotes

You should also have a bio that plays up your brand—this will be used for any kind of press or speaking engagement. Make it jazzy and exciting, and don’t be afraid of language that really touts you.

You give because the love of God has been poured into your heart, not to satisfy the law.

The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.

Finances flow along the lines of relationships in the kingdom of God.

If you want to prosper, prosper God.

You’ve loved with intensity and passion, and have learned to hide your heartache, learned to press your handkerchief back into your pocket and pretend that you are okay.

You pull the trigger just for fun, forgetting I'm a loaded gun. So hate me for the things I've done, and not for what I've now become.

Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.

Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?

She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down.

Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man

You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?”She had no answer.

Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.

Apostles go into new territory and establish God’s kingdom.

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.

I wonder what it would be like to be with a boy who blushes when he looks at my skin.

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.