Breath Tim Winton Quotes

#1. Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#3. It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

Tacitus

#4. And books! ... she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.

Jane Austen

#5. ...human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to how to behave, it's just that for many people the situation is the key determinate in that choice.

Laurence Rees

#6. In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

Alexander The Great

#7. To list and name people ... is to subjugate them.

David Mitchell

#8. Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

Walter Scott

#9. I was the world in which I walked.

Wallace Stevens

#10. Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.

Alastair Reynolds