Longshadow Aussies Quotes & Sayings

She is the only true thing. — Gemma Files

If the stars are sublime, why should the earth be therefore petty? It is part of a sublime system. If the earth is to be called petty, then the stars must be called petty too. They may not even be inhabited. Perhaps they mean the movement of the vast system going on for ever, while men die. The indestructibility of matter. But if matter is indestructible, it is not what the people who use the phrase mean by matter. If matter is not conscious, man is more than matter. If a small, no matter how small, conscious thing is called petty in comparison with big, no matter how big, unconscious things, everything is made a question of size, which is absurd.... — Dorothy M. Richardson

If you do things right, NOTHING will go wrong. Conversely if you do things wrong, NOTHING will be right. — Anthony Pan

We bear more than pain and sorrow when we depart life. Among the heaviest burdens is apt to be regret, which deserves a word at this point. — Sherwin B. Nuland

What we have," Robert tells us, "is not democracy. It is imitative democracy. We have all the external signs. We have elections. We have a parliament. We have legislation. All the accessories of democracy. But anyone with common sense here knows we live in an authoritarian state. Putin has learned that if he offers the accessories of democracy, his regime can be very hard to accuse. The regime does one thing very well: It doesn't listen. So there can be free speech, channels of communication. But normally in a democracy, those voices affect decision making. In this country that doesn't happen. — David Greene

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.' — Gelindo Bordin

May my practice be dedicated to your well-being. — Sharon Salzberg

Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man. — A. Ashley Straker

She slammed the book closed, ran to her bed, gathered her stuffed animals up in her arms, started chewing on her blanket, and cried for a while, considering the question of trolls. — Neal Stephenson

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. — Christopher Hitchens

I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings. — Raylee Johnson

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work. — Sean Lennon