Alfred Deakin's Quotes

#1. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Cesar Chavez

#2. If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

Salman Rushdie

#3. In our state - no kidding - they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Because if you don't accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success.

Ben Carson

#5. He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace.

E. M. Forster

#6. There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

Arto Lindsay

#7. But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.

Mungo MacCallum

#8. Short or long to Goblin City?
The straight way's short
But the long way's pretty ...

Terry Jones

#9. Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Francois Fenelon

#10. We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.

Karen Russell

#11. I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Magic Johnson

#12. You can't be a winner if you're a whiner ... wiener.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#13. As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

Max Irons

#14. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

Malvina Reynolds

#15. I thought I could leave you. I thought distance would
make 'this' go away, and it'd get easier, but it hasn't.

S.C. Stephens

#16. When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Stephen Mangan