Goolagong Australia Quotes

#1. Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

Max More

#2. Others can be very hard to solve - two notoriously hard examples are predicting extended weather conditions or stock-market performance.

Anasse Bari

#3. Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#4. He [Russell] said once, after some contact with the Chinese language, that he was horrified to find that the language of Principia Mathematica was an Indo-European one.

J.E. Littlewood

#5. Even in these times of ours," he wrote in 1948, "when political passion and brute force hang like swords over the anguished heads of men, that even in such times there is being held high and undimmed the standard of our ideal search for truth.

Brandon R. Brown

#6. You make a mistake, you keep going.

Linda Gray

#7. But words are vain; reject them all
They utter but a feeble part:
Hear thou the depths from which they call,
The voiceless longing of my heart.

George MacDonald

#8. Compassion is always appreciated, whether it comes sooner or later.

Adele Faber

#9. In America and Europe, it was said, people know what is going to happen when they turn on the water tap or flick on the light switch. In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers.

Katherine Boo

#10. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Peter S. Beagle