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Eagan, J. W.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Earhart, Amelia

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Eastwood, Clint

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

Eberhardt, Isabelle

One must never look for happiness; one meets it by the way.

Eco, Umberto (on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose)

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Edelman, Marian Wright

Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for.

Edison, Thomas Alva

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas Alva

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas Alva

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Edison, Thomas Alva

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Einstein, Albert

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Einstein, Albert

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Einstein, Albert

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Einstein, Albert

The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Einstein, Albert

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Einstein, Albert

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Einstein, Albert

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.

Eisenhower, Dwight David

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Eisenhower, Dwight David

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)

Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never striving good enough to be called a failure.

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)

Indefinite visions of ambitions are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Elizabeth I

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak . . . you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Ellerbee, Linda

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Elmer-DeWitt, Philip

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Elsey, Mark

If at first you don't succeed, ask if the loser gets anything.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A great man is always willing to be little.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Scatter joy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

English Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.

Epictitus

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Ertz, Susan

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Ettinger, Bob

I'm into golf now. I'm getting pretty good. I can almost hit the ball as far as I can throw the clubs.

Evans, Marian

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Ewing, Sam

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

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