Antipodeans Abroad Quotes

#1. The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

Aaron Ciechanover

#2. The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

#4. She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter

Walter Dean Myers

#5. Hurrah!" cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). "Distance does not exist!" And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just escaped a severe fall, which would have proved to him that distance was by no means an empty name.

Jules Verne

#6. My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated

Serge Nubret

#7. Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket ... it's part-ownership of a business.

Peter Lynch

#8. We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#9. When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

Jason Calacanis

#10. When I was still a piccanin she tutuzela'd me on her back, a back-to-front kangaroo. Snug in the hollow of her back, I felt her humming and singing seep into me." (from "Blood Orange: A Novel" by Troy Blacklaws)

Troy Blacklaws

#11. Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.

Stephen King

#12. -In discovery therapy you ask life's questions and uncover the problems so u can recover the solution

Ikechukwu Joseph

#13. History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain

#14. Fang snapped out his huge wings and shone the penlight under his chin so it raked his cheekbones and eyes. My mouth dropped open: He looked like the angel of death.

James Patterson

#15. Down Through the Valley"
"When Jane left me for Barry Kramer, it was a heavy kind of hurt, but by the time she took up with him, there wasn't a whole lot left for us. For quite a while, we'd been nothing but an argument looking for different ways to happen.

Wells Tower