Stereotypical Australian Quotes & Sayings

For him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class - all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class - she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity. — Leo Tolstoy

My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen — David Eddings

All that's happened is inconsequential; it cannot hurt us anymore; there's only music, which lives within us and beyond us, needing us to express it but capable of surviving forever between expressions. — William T. Vollmann

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information. — Freeman Dyson

The whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on. — Virginia Woolf

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house. — Reese Witherspoon

Maybe God isn't trying to tell us anything specific each time we hurt. Pain and suffering are part and parcel of our planet, and Christians are not exempt. — Philip Yancey

Sometimes there's a fire in your life and you ask God,
"Lord, let me go around the fire." And God says, "No."
Then you ask, "Lord, then let me go over the fire."
And God says, "No." Then you ask,
"Well Lord, please let me go under the fire."
And God says, "No. Go through the fire and I'll be with you. — Lydia Thornton

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own. — Dave Brubeck