"Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Cutting Quotes #Scythes Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.”
“Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.”
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.”

Source : Nelson Algren, H. E. F. Donohue (1964). “Conversations with Nelson Algren”, Hill
“America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.”
“I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.”
“I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.”
“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.”

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