Brisbane Floods Quotes & Sayings

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory. — Vilfredo Pareto

The flower is here, so let's dance here. — Amjad Nasser

Peri slapped her hand over Jen's mouth and looked at Jacque.
"How do you deal with her?"
jacque chuckled. "She grows on you."
Peri snorted. "What? Like a fungus? — Quinn Loftis

Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure. — Marisha Pessl

I get a standing ovation just standing — George Burns

Contemplation + action = breakthrough — Lada Ray

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before. — Tamaryn

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits — Jared Diamond

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down! — Mitch Hewer

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence. — Grace Metalious

I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes. — Leon Bridges

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass. — Simone De Beauvoir

Krylenko: We care not about any other law. There is no law here but Soviet law. When that law comes into conflict with any other law, you must choose which you will obey.
Rutkowski: I will obey the law of God and of my conscience.
Krylenko: Your conscience does not interest me in the least.
Rutkowski: But it is of very great importance to me.
Judge Galkin: — Paul Gabel

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. — Edward Gorey

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'. — Gough Whitlam