Alfred Deakin Quotes

#1. The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Allyson Felix

#3. A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

Asif Kapadia

#4. History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I know you said you can't make yourself trust - so, damn it, make somebody else trust. Make me trust.

Rick Yancey

#6. But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.

Mungo MacCallum

#7. I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Joseph Monninger

#8. You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others - all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.

Ayn Rand

#9. He looked at his foreword, written, as ever, in his customary green ink, with the simple, if guilty, hope that in the abyss that lay between his dream and his failure there might be something worth reading in which the truth could be felt.

Richard Flanagan

#10. One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Chrissie Hynde

#11. A valid answer comes when the question is lived.

Elizabeth Vongsaravanh

#12. It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Robert Silverberg