Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

Force | Power |

Eleanora Duse, aka Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Nature | Power | Soul |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Our message is clear. We count. Children count. Everybody counts, so count everybody,

Better | Equality | Example | Family | Organization |

Elif Safak

Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

Change | Contentment | Daughter | Day | Life | Life | Light | Looks | Mind | Nothing | People | Power | Regret | Safe | Time | Will | Wonder | Wrong | Think |

Albert Einstein

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Events | Research | Will |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

Bravery | Courage | Power | Strength | Thought | Thought |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

We all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, too ugly, or too old, or too foolish. We tell ourselves these stories because they allow us to excuse our actions, and they allow us to pass off the responsibility for things we have done-maybe to something within our control, but anything other than the decisions we have made.

Looks | Money | Nonsense | Thought | Will | Thought |

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Effort | Men | Mob | Occupation | Organization | Past | Power | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Work |

Albert Einstein

I have no possibility to bring the money you sent me to the appropriate receiver. I return it therefore in recognition of your good heart and intention. Your letter shows me also that wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Ideas | Knowledge | Relationship | World |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

If we choose life and liberty, compassion and service, character and faith, we will honor those who came before us, and inspire the children of tomorrow.

Power |

Eleazar ha-Kappar, alternate spelling Eliezer ha-Kappar

The synagogues and Beth midrashs in Babylonia will in the time to come be planted in Eretz Israel.

Disrespect | Grave | Inclination | Will | Blessed |

Elihu Root

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Fighting | Men |

William Shakespeare

Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

Looks | Will |

William Shakespeare

Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain she sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word, then I'll commend her volubility and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

Looks |

William Shakespeare

She shall be buried by her Antony: no grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous.

Looks | Trifles |

William Shakespeare

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; you dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; and thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

Fear | Looks |

William Shakespeare

So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.

Power |

William Shakespeare

See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, and let's be red with mirth.

Knowledge | Suspicion |

William Shakespeare

Say that upon the altar of her beauty you sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: write till your ink be dry and with your tears moist it again, and frame some feeling line, that may discover such integrity.

Looks | Will |