Kachanov Australian Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to argue with my hosts. I wanted them to talk. But I felt like reminding Li that perhaps forty million Chinese people had died of starvation a half century earlier because they followed their government's orders. It was the largest famine in history. A snapshot taken then would have given a very different picture of the supposedly essential character of Chinese people, and it would have entirely missed the point. Governments matter. Markets matter. History matters. International circumstances matter. — Howard W. French

I know nothing about how to win over others. I know only the way know the way to win over myself.
attributed to the (master) swordsman Yagyu, who was a teacher (and samurai?) to the Shogun himself. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

No matter what any bleeding-heart tells you, 3% of the people in the world are scum. The trouble is, if you spent 80% of your time with that 3%, you start thinking that 80% of the world is scum. — Rory Miller

There are things in life, though, which, however we look at them, are valid for everyone. Like love, for example. — Paulo Coelho

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. — J.K. Rowling

Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams. — W. Arthur Porter

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. — John Townsend Trowbridge

Good books are for consideration after, too. — Stephen King

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours. — Israelmore Ayivor

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. — Luc De Clapiers

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game — Bobby Robson

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary. — Lisa Schwarzbaum

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless. — Clive Palmer

For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death. — Christopher Pike

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette