List of Topics starting with [E]

A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my ...

When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover ...

It's hard to keep your head when the ground's moving 'neath your feet

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already ...

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

All paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity

Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring ...

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

Adapt to every circumstance.

Heaven ... a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation ... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step ...

I've sworn off men. All they do is break your heart and eat your junk food." - Maggie Maddock

Be careful what you Think you want, it can only Be just what it is.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I ...

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already ...

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Sometimes when people get to be too nice, you end up not thanking them, because you are completely tired of saying thank you. Then they ...

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. ...

When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that ...

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end ...

European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences.

I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans are in this ...

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

Power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering ...

You can endure every hardship with hope.

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of ...

People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck ...

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

She felt for the first time in her life, a sense of likeness with another human creature, and a sense of safety, not so much ...

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to ...

The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more ...

Surviving in the township is like swimming in the ocean one mistake you drown

The universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being.

Appreciate every moment because this moment is your precious life.

The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as members of a "helping profession". ...

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

She had seen it when she was at home last summer - the hostility of comfortable, self-satisfied people toward serious effort.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight ...

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I ...

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I just love Kate. [Bieber], to me, is one of the funniest impressions because it's so all encompassing. It's like a total body and soul ...

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

While they had been talking the stars had grown fainter and great gaps of white light were appearing in the greyness of the eastern sky.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

While trying to frame someone, one needs to bear in mind if the intended target is even capable of carrying out such an operation, so ...

Don't do this for me - do this with me. A leader earns devotion by showing devotion.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to ...

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I ...

I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow ...

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and ...

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above ...

We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to ...

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

You gotta keep falling in love. You gotta believe in it. What are you going to do ... give sheep the vote?

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care ...

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Ah, my brethren, how small is the number of those who get to Heaven, for it only consists of those who, without ceasing, and courageously ...

My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad ... But let your words and conduct be perfectlypuresuch as your ...

As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of ...

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist ... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty ...

In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, ...

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

The sacred preacher woman; Lailah Gifty Akita.

Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward - like flannel pajamas that hadn't been changed for a month, or like ...

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits ...

Arm yourself with wisdom,arm yourself with knowledge;folly is a fierce lion roaming the streets.

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers ...

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more ...

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come ...

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there's this really awesome restaurant I've been ...

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.