Alfred Deakin Federation Quotes

#1. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

Sarah Kay

#2. It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

Maya Deren

#3. Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it.

Jennie Finch

#4. You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

Shia Labeouf

#6. The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

Julian Assange

#7. Inner peace and inner bliss are eternal dimensions deep within which we can experience anytime we are prepared to surrender and accept life exactly how it is.

Christopher Dines

#8. (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say),

John Medina

#9. I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

David Millar

#11. Women don't try to use me.

Amy Winehouse

#12. I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Dick Dale

#13. walked on, thinking about the newspaper article I'd recently come across about three women in California - each one had been killed by a mountain lion on separate occasions over the past year - and

Cheryl Strayed

#14. The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Albert Schweitzer