It is only the first step that is difficult. Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763 Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989 The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
English novelist (1819 - 1880) I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976 Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. Unknown
Quotations by unknown authors We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
British author (1820 - 1878) The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
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