Kathy Eager
One death is a tragedy and journalists write a story. One thousand deaths is a statistic and isn't worth reporting.
Dr. Sylvia Earle
We need to respect our oceans and take care of them as if our lives depend on it … because they do.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Old age enlightens or petrifies.
To be proud in defeat is a victory.
Imagined ills are the hardest to cure.
To do it is the only prove of your ability.
Happy slaves are the enemies of freedom.
No dead is buried deeper than a dead passion.
The right of the mighty is the mightiest injustice.
To be young is fine, but to be old is more comfortable.
Who believes in the freedom of will has never loved or hated.
In rheumatism and true love you only believe when hit by them.
A man with a job and a woman with brains makes a good marriage.
Exceptions don't always confirm that old rule. They may be the first signs of a new rule.
Umberto Eco
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Professionals are people who begin to talk when they have stopped to think - and vice versa.
Beware prophets and those willing to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, and some times instead of them.
Andrew Edgerton
Passion is a feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you never felt before.
Thomas A. Edison
What you are will show in what you do.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
When you have exhausted all possibilities remember this: ... you haven't.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Heinz Ehrhardt
Women are creation's jewels. One has to wear them with awe.
Public Service is like theatre - a few are working and the others watch.
Love affairs are like eating mushrooms - one knows only afterwards if they were harmless.
Paul Ehrlich
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman
or an economist.
Max Ehrmann("Desiderata")
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Joseph von Eichendorff
Whom God likes He will send into the big wide world.
Kai Eide (United Nations Kabul)
If you want to have results that matter, you must speak to those who matter.
Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts.
Never mistake motion with action.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Shrewd is the Lord God, but malicious He is not.
("Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht).
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Work is the only thing which gives substance to life.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery.
Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
I have no particular Talent, I am merely extremely inquisitive.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Sad times when it is easier to destroy an atom than a prejudice.
I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.
An evening when everybody is in agreement is a wasted evening.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
It's not that I am so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer.
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.
To be a perfect member of a herd of sheep you have to be, above all, a sheep.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything learnt in school.
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
The world is not in danger from people who are bad, but from those who allow the bad.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the former.
The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.
He who can no longer pause and wonder and stand wrapped in awe is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Common sense is nothing more than the deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count. Everything that counts can't necessarily be counted.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Dwight D.Eisenhower
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Barry Eisler
I don't believe in fate. Fate is bullshit. (‘Hard Rain')
In alien circumstances, we tend to cling to habit. (‘The Last Assassin')
It wasn't how far you fell, it was how high you bounced.. (‘Requiem for an Assassin')
Kerstin Ekman
Words are unshakeable. They remain stable.
The soul would rather be where it loves than where it lives and breathes.
It was said that in each and every person there is an eternal spark, which cannot be put out.
We live large parts of our lives as if the will were suspended. We live as if we have to, or believe we have to, stalled in necessity, bound by the inevitable. (all from "Forest of Hours")
George Eliot
It's never too late to become the person you might have been.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of poultry.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, Sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
Jim Eliot
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
T.S.Eliot
Old men ought to be explorers.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Most of the evil in the world is done by people with good intentions.
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
Elizabeth I, Queen
There is only one Jesus Christ and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.
It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Michael Elliott
Sometimes only war brings peace.
Great champions, like politicians, are forged in defeat.
Tragedy has a way of visiting those who can bear it least.
R. J. Ellory
Life isn't a dress rehearsal... It's the real thing, you know? ('A Quiet Belief in Angels')
Jacques Ellul
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
Mona EltahawyHistory is not linear. Just because we achieve progress in something, it doesn't mean that it's going to continue progressing.
Rahm Emanuel
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
The first wealth is health.
Children all are foreigners.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The soul's emphasis is always right.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Common sense is genius dressed in work clothes.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Here's to the happy man: all the world loves a lover.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
How cunningly Nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
Empedocles
The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Juliana Engbert
Don't try to design what the arts can or should be doing. Value it for what it is: active philosophical thinking made into words, sounds, images, actions and so many cross-pollinations.
Paul Engle
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Anne Enright
People do not change, they are merely revealed. (‘The Gathering')
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
To enter politics means adieu to life and the kiss of death.
Epicurus
Pleasure is the beginning and the end for happy living.
I have never wished to please the crowd; because they do not approve of what I know, and what they approve I do not know.
Epikte No one can make progress facing both ways
Not the circumstances by themselves, but our attitude towards them decides whether we will be happy or unhappy.
Erasmus of Rotterdam(Erasmus Desiderius)
Better prevent than cure.
Your library is your paradise.
Fortune favours one who dares.
Hidden talent brings no reputation.
War is enjoyed by those who do not know it.
Paul Erdös (Hungarian Mathematician)
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Tayyip Erdogan
Democracy is like a streetcar - you ride it till you arrive at your destination, then you step off.
Ludwig Erhard
Compromise is the knack of dividing the cake in such a way that everyone believes to have gotten the biggest piece.
Heinz Erhardt
Some people always want to shine despite having no sheen whatsoever.
Euclid (to Ptolemy I, King of Egypt, 306BC)
There is no royal road to geometry.
Euripides
Slaves will always serve success. (‘Electra')
Fate compels, and none can resist. (‘Hecabe')
Man is like the company he seeks.
To a noble soul every task is noble.
A prudent friend is life's best blessing.
Beauty is produced by uncountable labours.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Forgive: since men are men they need to err.
A wavering mind is an awkward possession.
Pious words and idle hands bring in no breakfast. (Electra')
First know who you are, then pick the add-ons to fit.
When you are poor, good breeding counts for nothing. (‘Electra')
Do not plan for the future before having done the present.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. Gods billow its sails.
The best sage is common sense, speaking our mother tongue.
To be born in a famous town is the first requisite of happiness.
Time will explain it all. Time needs no prodding before it talks.
Youth is the best time to be rich. It's also the best time to be poor.
People shine on the outside; underneath they are like you and me.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love. (‘Medea')
A word had double power, even with doubtful arguments, coming from one whom men respect. (‘Hecabe')
John Evelyn
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.