Top 100 Fraser Quotes
#1. There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald Fraser
#3. Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser
#5. I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.
Brendan Fraser
#6. I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
Antonia Fraser
#7. Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own ... and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.
Diana Gabaldon
#8. We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Malcolm Fraser
#9. I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.
Laura Fraser
#10. I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.
George Brandis
#11. Perception always makes precedence over reality
.
Time explodes everything.
They will seek, we will create, they will find.
Fraser Beath McEwing
#12. Joy. Fear. Fear, most of all." His hand came up and smoothed my curls away from his nose
"I havena been afraid for a verra long time, Sassenach," he whispered. "But now I think I am. For there is something to be lost, now." Page 394
Diana Gabaldon
#13. Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again.
"I said I was a virgin, not a monk," he said, kissing me again. "If I find I need guidance, I'll ask.
Diana Gabaldon
#14. If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Antonia Fraser
#15. I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.
Brendan Fraser
#16. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
George MacDonald Fraser
#17. I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
Diana Gabaldon
#18. People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
Antonia Fraser
#19. Looking for peaceful ways to save the world is a charming idea. The fact is worlds are saved and freedom is gained through the blood and pain of those who are willing to sacrifice and fight for it. Are you a dreamer or are you a fighter?
Kolleen Fraser
#20. The essence of the divine being is not power but compassion and love. And it's this love, and this love only, that whispers to me in defiance of the darkness: all will be well, all manner of things will be well.
Giles Fraser
#21. I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
Dawn Fraser
#23. Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.
Paul Keating
#24. God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!
Diana Gabaldon
#25. I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
Antonia Fraser
#26. And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?"
"I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.
Diana Gabaldon
#28. My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
Antonia Fraser
#29. English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.
Laura Fraser
#31. I dinna mean to interruupt ye, Sassenach" he whispered in my air. "But would ye like a bit of help we that?
Diana Gabaldon
#32. Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross.
Brooke Fraser
#33. The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.
Andrew Rimas Evan D.G. Fraser
#34. [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
Antonia Fraser
#35. But we want a record of us where there is 'nothing'
as if by holding each other's waists, we could
find the border and lose it.
Kathleen Fraser
#36. These people looking for efficiencies have no understanding that governments have to do things you can't put a dollar on
Malcolm Fraser
#38. It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
Sylvia Fraser
#39. Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
Diana Gabaldon
#40. I've always heard that it's not nice to talk about the dead. But it seems to me that's the best time to talk about them. So I hope you'll reserve your opinion of me for a few more years.
Shelley Fraser Mickle
Shelley Mickle
#41. very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to
Antonia Fraser
#42. Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Malcolm Fraser
#43. I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
Brendan Fraser
#44. It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.
Antonia Fraser
#45. Please," she said, "don't mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter.
Diana Gabaldon
#46. There is no night as deep as this
Inevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone
Olive Fraser
#47. I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
George MacDonald Fraser
#48. I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Brendan Fraser
#49. Open your eyes and tell me yourself, Sassenash, said a deep urgent voice somewhere close.
Diana Gabaldon
#50. You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me."
Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?"
"Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.
Robert B. Parker
#51. I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos.
Brooke Fraser
#53. I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
Dawn Fraser
#54. I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
Brendan Fraser
#55. Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her
and you ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing
as he knew of me
that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad.
Diana Gabaldon
#56. Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it?
Diana Gabaldon
#57. He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. "Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it." -Jamie Fraser
Diana Gabaldon
#58. Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Brendan Fraser
#59. Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.
Brooke Fraser
#60. He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.
Malcolm Fraser
#61. When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness I have learned to hide as a daughter, mother, wife, and queen among warriors.
Susan Fraser King
#62. If," I said through my teeth, "you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I'll cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast!
Diana Gabaldon
#63. After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser
#64. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Antonia Fraser
#65. Then he came back through the Square late that Saturday afternoon (there had been a ball game on the High School field) and he heard that Lucas had killed Vinson Gowrie out at Fraser's store;
William Faulkner
#66. I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
Antonia Fraser
#67. As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.
Brendan Fraser
#68. I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser
#69. I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser
#70. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
Brendan Fraser
#71. My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
#72. I have ... an understanding. In England. His understanding with James Fraser was that if he were ever to lay a hand on the man or speak his heart, Fraser would break his neck instantly. It was, however, certainly an understanding, and clear as Waterford crystal.
Diana Gabaldon
#73. When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Diana Gabaldon
#74. She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.
Antonia Fraser
#75. The deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.
Antonia Fraser
#76. You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.
Diana Gabaldon
#77. I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
Brooke Fraser
#78. Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser
#79. Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.
Brendan Fraser
#80. I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.
Brooke Fraser
#81. We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ...
Clara Fraser
#83. The ones we love often don't need our judgment - they need our prayers. - Dianne Fraser -
Gary Chapman
#84. Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.
George MacDonald Fraser
#86. I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
George MacDonald Fraser
#87. To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
Sylvia Fraser
#89. A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
John Allen Fraser
#90. He'd told Jamie Fraser the truth - the whole bloody truth - and
Diana Gabaldon
#91. It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
Giles Fraser
#92. It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
Dawn Fraser
#93. When you kissed me like that well maybe you weren't so sorry to be marrying me after all.
Diana Gabaldon
#94. I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
Brendan Fraser
#95. It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
Diana Gabaldon
#96. He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace's clasp. He undid it and held the chain of rubies up, red and gold in the flickering candlelight. "No shackles for us," he said, "no matter how rich.
Susanna Fraser
#97. I caught sight of Fraser in a pair of tight black Speedos. Ugh. Did he have a permit to carry that thing in public?
Josh Lanyon
#99. When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.
Fraser Young
#100. I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.
Diana Gabaldon
