E. B. White Quotes

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.

E. B. White

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• I never worked in an office in my life.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Life
  • Government
  • Hatred

• But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Know
  • Day

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Music
  • Day

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Freedom

• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets that controlled viewership around the world and, by consequence, controlled the public opinion. But today, this platform is democratized. Any community around the world can help. That is the great thing about our time.

  

  Yasmine Elmasri
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I think I've addressed it adequately that it's not going to get a chance to get like that, because I'll stop it real quick. It's not going to happen again. I can control that.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Chance
  • Addressed
  • Adequately

• Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life