Giddings Quotes

#1. I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom ... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

Paula Giddings

#2. The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.

Billy Graham

#3. The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Dean Smith

#4. Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Lara Giddings

#5. The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

Lara Giddings

#6. You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

Kahlil Gibran

#7. Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

Marsha Blackburn

#8. Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

Paula J. Giddings

#9. I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

Lara Giddings

#10. Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

Arlo Guthrie

#11. My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

Lara Giddings

#12. My centaur, Annette thinks, as she looks out the window trying to ignore Dwayne, would find my journal interesting and moving.

Megan Giddings

#13. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

Lara Giddings

#14. I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

Mark Harmon

#15. "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

Charles Dickens

#16. America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life
a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#17. Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Lara Giddings

#18. The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

Lara Giddings

#19. Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Lara Giddings

#20. Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.

Michael J. Bennett

#21. At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Lara Giddings

#22. If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas Cochrane

#23. I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

Lara Giddings

#24. I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

Lara Giddings

#25. I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.

Lara Giddings

#26. Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

Lara Giddings

#27. thirty is a watershed year for men. If they're going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don't, it's too late. So you mustn't hanker after men in their twenties.

Eloisa James

#28. The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Lennox Lewis

#29. There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

Lara Giddings

#30. Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

Albert Camus

#31. There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

Sigourney Weaver

#32. It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

Paula Giddings

#33. I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

Lara Giddings