Life Quote by Colleen McCullough

“It’s Fortune,” he said. “I was given the hardest consulship a man has ever had. Just as I was given the hardest life a man has ever had. I’m not the kind to surrender, and I’m not the kind to care how I win. There are plenty of eggs in the cups and plenty of dolphins down. But the race won’t be…” quote by Colleen McCullough — Download Open image

““It’s Fortune,” he said. “I was given the hardest consulship a man has ever had. Just as I was given the hardest life a man has ever had. I’m not the kind to surrender, and I’m not the kind to care how I win. There are plenty of eggs in the cups and plenty of dolphins down. But the race won’t be over until I’m dead.””

Colleen McCullough

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Life Wealth

More by Colleen McCullough

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

Colleen McCullough

“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”

Colleen McCullough

Image

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always…

Colleen McCullough

Image

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Colleen McCullough

Image

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

Colleen McCullough

Image

“But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us…

Colleen McCullough

Image

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Colleen McCullough

Image

“It's not worth getting upset about, Mrs. Dominic. Down in the city they don't know how the other half lives, and they can afford the luxury of doting on their animals as if they were children. Out here it's different. You'll never see man, woman or child in need of help go ignored out here, yet in the city those…

Colleen McCullough

“You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With…

Colleen McCullough

Image

“You still think love can save us. It’s more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With…

Colleen McCullough

Image

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

Colleen McCullough

Image

“The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men…

Colleen McCullough

Image

Explore all 82 Colleen McCullough quotes

More Life quotes

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

Teddy Atlas

Image

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

Octavio Paz