“Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.”
Ross Macdonald book Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (1973)
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
“Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.”
Ross Macdonald book Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (1973)
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“Each man reaps on his own farm.”
Act III, sc. 2, line 112; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, i, 46.
Elegies
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336) <br class="br">Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224) <br class="br">Source: The Woman in White (1859)
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference