Austrasia Map Quotes & Sayings

Our current contempt for poverty stems from information overload--this is the enabler---our over education as privileged people-- perhaps the real culprit--and our secret assurance that we ourselves owe no one anything beyond the exhausting daily round. We will defend our lack of idealism to anyone and be horrifyingly well received in this age. Indeed, many so called financial "philosophies" are in fact nothing more than elaborate justification for one petty selfishness after the next. — John Thomas Allen

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No". — Lawrence M. Krauss

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation. — David B. Lentz

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance. — Vanna Bonta

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner. — Barbara Demick

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. — David Soul

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away. — James Hunter

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity. — Henry Ford

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. — Karen Traviss