Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 60

Worrying about money isone of the biggest causes ofunhappiness, but no amountof money can make you happyunless you change theway you feel about it.
Domonique Bertolucci
To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action. Wisdom guides whether to act or not, and if so how. Sometimes darkness is overwhelming and intelligent action is required. Sometimes silence and inaction is required, but a silence which is the result of intelligence is different from that born of ego states such as pride, fear and laziness.
Belsebuub
Elizabeth studied the earl as he approached the waiting coach. "Was his behavior rather... odd?"t"He English. Ye're asking me if he's odd?
Victoria Roberts
Settle down, Maverick, this isn’t the danger zone.
Eden Summers
But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.
Simmone Howell
Facing one’s past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the counselor.— André Chevalier
Nikki Sex
Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.
C.S. Pacat
We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.
Sonya Hartnett
Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude.
Judith McKay
it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the archetypes they wish to invert or criticise and thereby open up the discussion. If authors can be thought of as magicians in any sense, then the root of our power has always rested with words: choosing them, arranging them and – most powerfully – inventing them. Sexism won’t go away overnight, and nor will literary bias. But until then, if we’re determined to invest ourselves in bringing about those changes, it only makes sense to arm ourselves with a language that we, and not our enemies, have chosen.May 14, 2011 Blog post
Foz Meadows
The fact that you can act with love even when you don’t feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.
Russ Harris
The Son symbolizes the hope of humanity, bringing light to the darkness of our material existence, and reuniting us with the divinity of our own higher nature.
Belsebuub
...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you.
Nick Vujicic
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
M.L Stedman
Persistence separates those who want it more.
Tony Curl
Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.
Jaclyn Moriarty
Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.
Joanne Madeline Moore
The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.
Dorothy Rowe
The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
Markus Zusak
The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy.
Malti Bhojwani
If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.
S.A. Tawks
Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up...
Marcus Zusak
I only hope I may not be ruined,” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.
Christina Brooke
The South: Three-wheeled Piggly Wiggly shopping carts, grease-caked engine blocks, baby strollers with shredded black hoods, Soviet rocket parts, human skulls on spikes and orange-eyed Rottweilers on heavy chains breathing fire...
Sean Condon
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
Melina Marchetta
Commit to being happy andmake the choices that willsupport your commitment.
Domonique Bertolucci
Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me.
Lindsay Armstrong
Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.
Margaret Way
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
John Marsden
The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
S.A. Tawks
A killer on the payroll isn't good for business
L.A. Larkin
A man's level of "toughness" (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a "p*#%y" by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered "fair game".
Miya Yamanouchi
...our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
Maybe her husband was right: maybe change didn't necessarily mean disaster. Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order. The universe was trying to tell her something - was it, perhaps, to let go?
Wendy Francis
Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.
John Marsden
A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which she fell cut off circulation to the leg, killing the limb. When she finally awoke, she was close to multi-organ collapse.
Michael McGirr
The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.
Gerald Murnane
The big-ass hole, all of the wreckage and mess. I'd done that. Me,
Kylie Scott
Are you afraid?""Yes.""Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms.""I am still afraid.
Amie Kaufman
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
James Clavell
Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.
Beau Taplin
My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.
Nikki Rowe
Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
Juliet Marillier
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.
Robert Hughes
Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more.
Miya Yamanouchi
The world is a chaotic place find a love that doesn't allow a home to have the same feeling.
Nikki Rowe
There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die.- Ty from Stolen
Lucy Christopher
It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.
Christos Tsiolkas
If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.
Kelly St. Clare
I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.
S.A. Tawks
Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.
Nikki Rowe
The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.
Jennifer Harrison
Everything in life has a space of balance.
Truth Devour
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
Gregory David Roberts
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
Markus Zusak
She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story. In the times ahead, that story would arrive at 33 Himmel Street in the early hours of morning, wearing ruffled shoulders and a shivering jacket. It would carry a suitcase, a book, and two questions. A story. Story after story. Story within story.
Markus Zusak
We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.
Nikki Rowe
What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?
Michelle Dennis Evans