All Quotes

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.
‐‐ Johanna Siguroardottir

'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!
‐‐ Shanola Hampton

Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

Eggs is great at leading the Boxtrolls, and that's probably my favorite trait of his. He is a Boxtroll, but he hasn't lost all of his human virtues. He can get out of his box, and he can fight back, which the Boxtrolls can't.
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
‐‐ Cameron Sinclair

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

Ego is good.
‐‐ Thomas Leonard

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
‐‐ Max Planck

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
‐‐ John Bradshaw

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Egos turn me off, big time.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
‐‐ John Milius

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
‐‐ Frank Leahy

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
‐‐ George V. Higgins

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
‐‐ Barbara Stanwyck

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.
‐‐ Hesham Qandil

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.
‐‐ Hosni Mubarak

Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.
‐‐ Pope Shenouda III

Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.
‐‐ Mohammed Morsi

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
‐‐ Mohammed Morsi

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.
‐‐ Andrew Young

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
‐‐ Pierre Loti