"The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again."

-- Ted Baillieu

#Ambition Quotes #Character Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.”
“I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.”
“People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.”
“Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.”
“Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.”
“Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love”
“Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.”

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