Australian Stereotype Quotes & Sayings

Ah, what a beautiful illustration of the completely open mind - utterly undiscriminating, lacking any criteria for acceptance, blissfully and uncritically according every idea its full respect. But, of course, it's a lie: they don't regard every idea as equally deserving. They clearly consider the atheist idea that the sacraments of their faith are empty foolishness to be an outrage. Rather, what they love is the idea that everyone else must respect their beliefs, no matter what they are, and that any disagreement is an insult. This is exactly the kind of uncritical, unskeptical, nonjudgmental idiocy that all religions seek to promulgate, because they all know that if we tore off the blinders of tradition and artificiality and mindless etiquette, we'd see right through their lies. Respect every idea! Especially mine! And if you find stupid the idea that this cracker is a god, why, you must be disrespectful and no gentleman! My — P.Z. Myers

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. — John Lydon

While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none. — Theocritus

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, 'If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.' So it was a great thrill to play there. — Raymond Floyd

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. — Winona LaDuke

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. — Henry Martyn Robert

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it. — A.C. Gaughen

I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I'm used to being treated like a mushroom - " "Eh?" Ascher asked. "Kept in the dark and fed bullshit," Binder reported calmly. "Ah. — Jim Butcher

I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Think of yourself as being loved, because you are. — Mary Morrissey

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. — Steve Jobs

Tell me not that I am too late. That such precious feelings are gone forever...Dare not say man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen

He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed, — John Scalzi