Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
Gregory David Roberts
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Change
Things
People
Wrongs
Caused
Tried
Worst
More quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
Gregory David Roberts
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
Gregory David Roberts
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
Gregory David Roberts
Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
Gregory David Roberts
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
Gregory David Roberts
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David Roberts
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
Gregory David Roberts
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
Gregory David Roberts
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Gregory David Roberts
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
Gregory David Roberts
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
Gregory David Roberts
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
Gregory David Roberts
What is it? she asked. I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you? I'm afraid not, she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. There's too much of the devil in me for that. Just how much devil, I grinned, are we talking about here?
Gregory David Roberts
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
Gregory David Roberts
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
Gregory David Roberts
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Gregory David Roberts
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
Gregory David Roberts
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
Gregory David Roberts
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
Gregory David Roberts
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
Gregory David Roberts
