Great Throughts Treasury

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Elif Safak

How to deal with the goodness of their loved ones? Could be fought against goodness?

Chastity | Earth | Giving | Good | Guilt | Impression | Responsibility | Self | Truth | Wrong |

Elif Safak

No matter who, what part of the world we live, live, until a sense of a lack of deep down we are moving. It's a basic thing we are afraid of not getting lost it in the back. Bilenimizde what is missing very little indeed.

Change | Childhood | Life | Life | Religion | Sense | Time | Truth | Understanding | Woman | World |

Eli Pariser

We're working hard to broaden the 2006 battlefield. As more and more people realize that the House is up for grabs, that'll open the floodgates in terms of energy and support from our members.

Occupation | Wrong |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

They would have been pulling people off of Y2K to track funds, ... continue to do everything I can to protect those [federal Y2K] dollars for the district.

Woman |

Elif Safak

Rebelliousness is Not A good quality in A novice.

People | Time |

Eli Pariser

We're on the wrong track in Iraq. As many of our most distinguished former generals and anti-terrorism experts now observe, our occupation makes a political solution impossible by fueling the insurgents.

Administration | Need | Plan |

Eleazar ha-Kappar, alternate spelling Eliezer ha-Kappar

A person who deprives himself of health by injuring himself is considered a sinner.

Love | Means | Work |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say Oh look! Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Day |

Elif Safak

We will continue to have killed a killer.

Beauty | Love | Self | Beauty | Think |

Elias Canetti

I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.

Nothing | Old |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

Emmeline met Markie at Croydon: he was so very late she feared he would miss the plane. In her thin grey coat and skirt she sat waiting under the skylight on that sexagonal seat round the little pharos of clocks. A huge blue June day filled the aerodrome and reflected itself in the hall: she heard a great hum from the waiting plane hungry for flight.

Children |

Elias Canetti

Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.

Better | Diet | Goals | Mind | Novels | Personality | Pleasure | Size | Strength | Taste | Teach | Think | Understand |

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

SIMONIDES: And she is fair too, is she not? PERICLES: As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.

Folly | Love |

William Shakespeare

Since he hath got the jewel that I loved, and that which you did swear to keep for me, I will become as liberal as you, I'll not deny him anything I have, no, not my body nor my husband's bed.

William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Boys | Day | Glory | Good | Greatness | Hate | Heart | Hope | Little | Man | Mercy | Pride | Smile | Old |

William Shakespeare

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, that my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

William Shakespeare

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!

William Shakespeare

So many hours must I take my rest; so many hours must I contemplate.

William Shakespeare

Silence is not a language, it’s a weapon to make your dear one to feel.

Need | Time |