Top 31 Kamisese Mara Quotes
#1. And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
Kamisese Mara
#2. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.
David Bowie
#3. He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
Kamisese Mara
#4. Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
Kamisese Mara
#5. It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Kamisese Mara
#6. I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside ... but I will never ever again come back.
Kamisese Mara
#8. You were made to be ruled. It is the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. In the end, you will always kneel
Loki Laufeyson
#9. The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara
#10. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.
Denis Johnson
#11. How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
Kamisese Mara
#12. I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
Kamisese Mara
#13. I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara
#14. Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
Luis Gutierrez
#15. In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
Kamisese Mara
#16. I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.
Sharon Van Etten
#17. It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara
#18. The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
Kamisese Mara
#19. If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.
Robbie Earle
#20. I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
Kamisese Mara
#21. We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
Emanuel Celler
#22. The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
Tony Robbins
#25. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
Kamisese Mara
#26. Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara
#27. Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Kamisese Mara
#28. I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
Kamisese Mara
#29. Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
Sarah Wylie
#30. Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
Calvin Miller
#31. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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