Categories Starting with “E”

“Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.”

— Seth Shostak

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

— Margaret Thatcher

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.”

— Steven Pinker

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.”

— Helen Keller

“I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.”

— Prince Philip

“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.”

— Buddha

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

“I believe in being an innovator.”

— Walt Disney

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”

— Bill Gates

“The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.”

— Gloria Steinem

“A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.”

— Salman Rushdie

“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

— Blaise Pascal

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

— 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

“Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.”

— Hannah Arendt