Categories Starting with “E”

“Sin is geographical.”

— Bertrand Russell

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“No one knows what he can do until he tries.”

— Publilius Syrus

“I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

— William Shakespeare

“The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.”

— Bill Gates

“So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.”

— Alan Watts

“I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.”

— Andy Warhol

“Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.”

— Noam Chomsky

“There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.”

— Lao Tzu

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

— Edmund Burke

“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”

— Coco Chanel

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

— Albert Einstein

“The traveller has reached the end of the journey!”

— Edmund Burke

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky