E.B. White Quotes

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

Only fools want to be great.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

I stay in my lane of assignment and do what I'm supposed to do in life.

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

Might does not make right! Right makes right!

Greg Jackson is a sport killer

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.