17 Aussie Quotes & Sayings

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors. — Chanakya

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert

When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are. — Nina Garcia

I just have a quadraphonic personality — Andy Butler

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. — Amy Hempel

Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people. That — Charles Eisenstein

We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly. — Sakyong Mipham

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel. — Richard Stearns

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it. — Nick Davies

I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now. — Anderson Silva

Most people don't care who rules, as long as their lives don't change. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. — Horace Mann

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever. — Francois Duvalier