Australian Cockney Quotes & Sayings

I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time. — Julia Gillard

The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy. — Cheryl Strayed

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

All of us
men and women alike
have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo. — Sheryl Sandberg

To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine. — Zygmunt Bauman

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. — Derek Bok

If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them. — Frederick Lenz

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying. — Mario Cuomo

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us. — Cheryl Lynn

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Until you know someone's full story, it is just a guess to determine whether s/he is pride full or humble, out of touch with reality or grounded. — Assegid Habtewold

Pour your heart onto the page. — A.D. Posey

Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood. — Erma Bombeck

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman