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- We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
- Martha Grimes
- Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
- Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
- When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
- Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
- Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
- 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
- It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
- Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
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