Elwyn Brooks White Quotes Elwyn Brooks White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Democracy Half People Politics Recurrent Right Suspicion Time
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. Elwyn Brooks White
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. Elwyn Brooks White
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. Elwyn Brooks White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Elwyn Brooks White
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. Elwyn Brooks White
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. Elwyn Brooks White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Elwyn Brooks White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. Elwyn Brooks White
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. W. Averell Harriman
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. Kurt Cobain
We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it. Zac Brown