True Blue On Being Australian Quotes & Sayings

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. — Dora Russell

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. — James Geary

The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side. — Charles F. Glassman

From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that! — Xavier Niel

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher

There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought. — Robin McKinley

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. — Kazuo Ishiguro

In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly. — Desiderius Erasmus

There's a bomb under the school. — Stuart Gibbs