"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

--

Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Catherine Helen Spence

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.”
“Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as 1500 B.C. and before. Thousands of people have seen some kind of navigable contraptions in the sky, and some have sworn it under oath.”
“In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.”
“Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.”
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
“Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.”

Source : "The Mistresses : Domestic Scandals of the 19th-Century Monarchs". Book by Betty Kelen, 1993.
“There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.”

You may also like:

Banjo Paterson
Poet
E. Lee Spence
Photographer
Edmund Barton
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Henry Lawson
Writer
Henry Parkes
Political figure
Louisa Lawson
Poet
Robert Menzies
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Robert the Bruce
King of Scots
Vida Goldstein
Australian Politician