Australian Wattle Quotes & Sayings

Do something, Congress. Do anything. — Barack Obama

My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it. — Doug McClure

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative. — Camilla Lackberg

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal. — Angie Harmon

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate. — Jonathan Alter

In Europe there's been a kind of social contract. It's now declining, but it has been largely imposed by the strength of the unions, the organised work force and the relative weakness of the business community (which, for historical reasons, isn't as dominant in Europe as it has been here). European governments do see primarily to the needs of private wealth, but they also have created a not insubstantial safety net for the rest of the population. They have general health care, reasonable services, etc. We haven't had that, in part because we don't have the same organised work force, and we have a much more class-conscious and dominant business community. — Noam Chomsky

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce. — Andrew Jackson

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her. — Gelett Burgess

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate. — Albert Ellis

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani. — M.I.A.

Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying. — Robert Walser

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can. — Stephen Dunn

There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house — Markus Zusak