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People Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
- Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to…
- A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library…
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a…
- A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want…
- Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
- The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
- When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the…
- Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
- It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
- If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
- Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
- Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make…
- Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle