Elizabeth Ann Scarborough quotes

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.”
-- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Source : Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1995). “The Godmother”, Ace Books

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“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”
“But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.”
“Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.”
“You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.”
“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”
“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan
“It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.”
“It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!”

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