Australian Bushranger History Quotes & Sayings

She didn't fool herself about either her lack of faith or her stubborn love of the idea itself. 'Come — Stephen King

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me? — Jeanette Winterson

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship! — Karen Salmansohn

I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing. — Meredith Brooks

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die. — Ruskin Bond

It's just logic- what went in.....didn't come out!
The amount of jewellery stolen in over 600 of Ben Hall's robberies has not been found.
Apart from a few small discoveries, no-one has put up their hand as to finding a large cache of stolen goods.
My assumption then is: it's still out there! — John Donohoe

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault. — George Ayittey

Far and away the greatest menace to the writer - any writer, beginning or otherwise - is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or - kindest of all - goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind. — Shirley Jackson

Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment. — Edith Stein