Famous Australian Military Quotes & Sayings

N every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I'm overpowered by its scale. It's so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don't feel rejected by the sky. I'm a part of it - tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate in the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty out aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us. — Carl Sagan

It is difficult to accept but no less true: If fear is winning in our lives, it is because we simply keep choosing it over our other impulses to be strong or bold or great. — Brendon Burchard

Time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal. — Stephen R. Lawhead

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform. — John Stamos

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration. — Henry Rollins

By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too. — Jessica Knoll

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. — Mohammed Omar

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates

We will have a reckoning with our culture and religion, with military rulers and Islamists - two sides of one coin. Such a reckoning is essentially a feminist one. And it is what will eventually free us. Women - our rage, our tenacity, our daring and audacity - will free our countries. — Mona Eltahawy

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier. — Alessandro Baricco

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am. — Christina Aguilera

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. — Jesse Jackson

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It's worth more than money, possession, or things. — Ben Parr

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there. — K.d. Lang

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream. — Jimmy Carter