"When my journal appears, many statues must come down."

-- Duke of Wellington

#Legacy Quotes #Journal Quotes

“Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.”
“As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.”
“We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.”

Source : Charlotte Mew (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.56, Carcanet
“With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. I'm a history nut and I love to immerse myself in the research.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...”

Source : "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.
“She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.”

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