Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Too much thinking, not enough feeling.
John Marsden
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Marsden
Feeling
Feelings
Enough
Much
Thinking
More quotes by John Marsden
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
John Marsden
....we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.
John Marsden
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
John Marsden
When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.
John Marsden
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
John Marsden
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
John Marsden
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
John Marsden
Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
John Marsden
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.
John Marsden
We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.
John Marsden
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.
John Marsden
A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.
John Marsden
Name three types of olives. Olives! I wouldn't know one type! Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.
John Marsden
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.
John Marsden
The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
John Marsden
I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.
John Marsden
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.
John Marsden
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
John Marsden
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
John Marsden
