Mawson Lakes Quotes

#1. Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

Sam Childers

#2. I've never done it, but I think if you do a Google search for 'People who will help me travel across the country to meet my online love,' I'm probably the only person that comes up.

Nev Schulman

#3. Money can turn into everything but we can only turn into ourselves.

Stephen Marche

#4. If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

#5. If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Justin Cronin

#6. Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

William James

#7. Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

George Eliot

#8. I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.

Ann Northrop

#9. Determination to enjoyment and praying should be the main goal of life.

Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

#10. An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it.

Dennis Lehane

#11. Violence destroyed families. Violence destroyed lives.

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He'd never been a violent man, but he'd seen it. It killed the spirit and left families fearful and hopeless.

Gail Gaymer Martin

#12. For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#13. It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on a god to find you a partner.

Darrel Ray

#14. We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

Eric Bana