Diamants Australiens Quotes & Sayings

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring. — Janni Lee Simner

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. — Saint Augustine

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration — Art Opportunities

Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to. — Mike Birbiglia

you gotta stop living in fear. You can't see the stars unless you go out in the dark. — Carian Cole

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources — Mathis Wackernagel

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thing - that no matter how dire the circumstances, she would find a better way. She was so naive, so arrogant to think that the laws of necessity and unthinkable circumstance could not apply to her. She could tell herself that this was an act of mercy, but that would be a lie. This was an act of war. An act of terrorism. It was nothing less than an assassination.
If I do this, Allie told herself, I am no better than Mary. I will have sunk to the worst possible place a person can go. After this moment, I will be a cold-blooded killer and it can never be taken back.
So the question was, did Allie Johnson have the strength to sacrifice all that was left of her innocence if it meant she might save the world? — Neal Shusterman

The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead people," I whispered.
"Yep," Aidan said, smiling. "More vampire jokes. You're just fine, then. Once this is over, you and my brother will be BFFs." He wrapped his arms around me, pressing me against his broad chest. Against my better judgement, I leaned into him, strangely comforted. — Jayde Scott

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. — Edward Abbey

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty. — Robert Anton Wilson

A heart renewed
a loving heart
a penitent and humble heart
a heart broken and contrite, purified by love
that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man. — Frederick William Robertson

It wasn't that Friends thought that the Lord spoke only to them; it was only that they weren't sure other folk listened very often. — Diana Gabaldon

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy. — Ralph Nader