Top 16 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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #14169
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #174676
#3. In our state - no kidding - they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)

Barbara Kingsolver

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #754506
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #782522
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #819131
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #864112
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1078037
#8. Short or long to Goblin City?
The straight way's short
But the long way's pretty ...

Terry Jones

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1214958
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1504944
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1518744
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1535209
#12. You can't be a winner if you're a whiner ... wiener.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1573359
#13. As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

Max Irons

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1695612
#14. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

Malvina Reynolds

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1752517
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1819529
#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

Alfred Deakin's Quotes #1876301

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