We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
George Burns

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
Eddie Izzard

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert Kennedy

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler