E. S. Carter Quotes

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

I am from the planet of elegance.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

Organic farming is personal.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.