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Time Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the…
- Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
- Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay…
- A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
- My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
- Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp -…
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
- Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time…
- One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of…
- 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…
- Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still…
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- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar