Alan Stewart Paton Famous Quotes
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another
"Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating."
"Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God."
Alan Stewart Paton Quotations
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster
Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
E R Hazlip
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
Sophocles
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
John Lancaster Spalding
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
Anon
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
Stanislaw Lem