Famous Edith Cowan Quotes & Sayings

The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That, not madness, was his curse. — Dean Koontz

But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds. — Julian Barnes

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it ... you feel it." — A.A. Milne

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers. — Michael Marshall Smith

Successful people are just as "lucky" as the unsuccessful. The difference is they do something remarkable with their lucky moment while the rest of the world sits around, waiting for the next lucky streak to come. — Jeff Goins

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal. — Gene Baur

Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it. — John Kinsella

One writes in order to feel ... — Muriel Rukeyser

You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or destruction. Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness. Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. — Lauren Oliver

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up. — Blaise Pascal

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. — John Knowles