E. B. White Quotes

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Sex is good. Everybody does it and everybody should.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.