Kate Burridge Quotes

#1. Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.

Bill Bright

#2. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Georg Simmel

#3. Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right?

David Louden

#4. Oppress several,
and you have several enemies.
Oppress many,
and you have many enemies.
Oppress numerous,
and you have numerous enemies.
Oppress countless,
and you have countless enemies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

Kate Burridge

#6. Love without conditions.

Seth Adam Smith

#7. All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

Kate Burridge

#8. 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

Kate Burridge

#9. The cool bathed his eyes and slowed the flight of time-time, that had crept so insidiously through the lazy April afternoons, seemed so intangible in the long spring twilights.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Kate Burridge

#11. I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Joe Baca

#12. I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH.

Jim Lehrer

#13. Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.

Kate Burridge

#14. All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

Kate Burridge