Sleuthsayers Quotes & Sayings

The truth does not need to be defended. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day. — Sara Zarr

When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for that day, but for me, and for all the other young women who were coming behind her. She didn't know our names, but she was working for us. I find that incredibly empowering. — Leah D. Daughtry

Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade! — Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind. — Stephanie Barron

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained. — Dalai Lama