Aboriginal Tent Embassy Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen. — Edward Kennedy

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. — Herman Melville

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others — Seth Grahame-Smith

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right.
Happy Eighth birthday, blog. — Neil Gaiman

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host? — Ishmael Reed

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough. — David Baldacci

It would be a rare place for a gallop." "You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture. — Michael Connelly

Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him? — James Joyce

I'm sorry I fought you, Mace," I whispered. "But now that you're mine again, I'm never going to let you go. — Kristen Ashley

As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart. — Jane Casey