Dandenongs Map Quotes & Sayings

The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31 — Russel H.S. Stolfi

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so. — Randall Jarrell

Two years after Tolkien's The Hobbit was published I read it for the first time. Twenty years later I read it again and experienced just the same feeling of delight and happiness and a quite breathless pleasure. That first time, when I was nine, was also the first time I remember feeling this. It is a sensation known to all lovers of fiction and comes at about page two, when you know it's not only going to be good, but immensely satisfying, enthralling, not to be put down without resentment, drawing inexorably to a conclusion of power and dramatic soundness. — Ruth Rendell

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe. — Henry Anatole Grunwald

There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. — Robyn

This is a night of your life. Live it accordingly. — Charles Romalotti

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. — James Madison

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed. — Lionel Murphy

Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time. — Erin Kellison

He sat there silent, watching their love expire. — Marcel Proust

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all — John Calvin

We must move "out of our mind" and dwell in our consciousness. — Michael Tsarion

Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo