Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 40

Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
James Clavell
I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler.
Barry Andrew Chambers
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.
Kathy Lette
I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.
Lucy Christopher
It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.
Margaret Way
Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?
Belinda Jeffrey
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
Elizabeth Scott
You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.
Margaret Way
I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.
Margaret Way
The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.
Terry Hayes
Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?
J.M. Coetzee
The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.
Russ Harris
Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
Rhonda Byrne
Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.
Foz Meadows
She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him.
Liane Moriarty
You can't go around feeling too much.
Melina Marchetta
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
John Marsden
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
Alexandra Adornetto
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.
Melina Marchetta
A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. “If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?” Of course it stays with the giver.
Bronnie Ware
I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.
Juliet Marillier
My gift to you, Yukiko-chan.' He nodded. 'Use it to cut away your fear, and leave nothing in its wake. Cherish it. And cherish this truth I speak to you now, if no other before or after: The greatest tempest Shima has even known waits in the wings for you to call its name. Your anger can topple mountains. Crush empires. Change the very shape of the world.'He pressed the blade into her hand, watched her with cool eyes the colour of steel.'Your anger is a gift.
Jay Kristoff
True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
Will Jelbert
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse’s pudgy face.
Geraldine Brooks
Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong.
Stephen M. Irwin
Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
Melina Marchetta
When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.
Tony Attwood
Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.
Rachel Ward
How vigilant we must be to ensure that we don’t allow our impression of Jesus to be held captive by the prevailing mores of our secular culture! Rather, it is essential that we continue to return to the Gospels to ensure that the reverse occurs: to allow Jesus to hold our hearts and imaginations captive in response to the dominant thinking of our time. For exiles trying to live faithfully within the host empire of post-Christendom, the Gospel stories are our most dangerous memories. They continue to fire our imaginations and remind us that it’s possible to thrive on foreign soil while serving Yahweh, but it’s the kind of thriving that often rejects popular wisdom. These stories are the standard by which we judge all other stories, all other descriptors of life today. If, after reading these dangerous biblical stories, you can’t imagine Jesus the Messiah as a televangelist, strutting around on stage in a flashy suit, playing it up for the cameras, then you are forced to reject this image and seek another mode of being Christ today.
Michael Frost
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
Mark Sayers
We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.
Geraldine Brooks
..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.
Lian Hearn
The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.
Julian Assange
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
Matthew Kelly
In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
Melina Marchetta
... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.
Markus Zusak
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
Markus Zusak
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.
Peter Singer
She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.
Gemma Liviero
Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it.
Truth Devour
If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
Markus Zusak
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
Steve Toltz
But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.
Karen Tayleur
Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)
D.J. Stutley
... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.
Karen Tayleur
You are my treasure.
Truth Devour
Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality.
Truth Devour
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
Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.
Matthew Reilly
The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.
Glenda Millard
Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
Glenda Millard
When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.
Portia de Rossi
Now don’t go thinking nice things about me. You’ll only be disappointed.
Ally Blake
Now you're dead, and I'm buried.
Cath Crowley
I'd love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don't have one to give.
Kelly Rimmer
He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.
Markus Zusak
Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.
Vikki Wakefield
Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…
Ranata Suzuki
Did you bite someone?' Jack enquired.'I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter has sharper teeth than any dog. It tears people apart who wish to be taken seriously, but I could not help myself. There were many complaints and finally a man in a brown suit came and looked at me. He was very important and not used to being laughed at, but I could see he had dandruff on his collar, and there was a spot of his breakfast egg on his lapel. You should have seen him - so puffed up and proud of himself. I couldn't help but laugh and that made people see him as I did, and so they laughed too. All of a sudden everyone realised that for all his status in official matters, he was a man who lived alone and was loveless.
Isobelle Carmody