Mason Durie Quotes & Sayings

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it — Jacqueline Carey

Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver. — Rudyard Kipling

The biggest threat to the regime is information. — John Baird

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world. — Italo Calvino

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord. — Frederick William Faber

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. — Thomas Mann

To live in modernity
an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news
is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory. — Alain De Botton

Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth. — Jose Saramago

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded. — Gilbert Ryle

I ... had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before," wrote Captain James Cook, the eighteenth-century explorer of the Pacific, "but as far as it was possible for man to go." Two centuries later, Yuri Romanenko, on returning to Earth after what was then the longest space flight in history, said "The Cosmos is a magnet ... Once you've been there, all you can think of is how to get back. — Carl Sagan

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. — Johann Most

And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart. — Kahlil Gibran