Hans Joachim Stapf 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

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious. — Ute Carbone

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can. — Shelley Duvall

I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job. — Sam Worthington

Everybody's friend is nobody's. — Arthur Schopenhauer

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. — Josh Homme

You can't replace people you love with other people ... But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love. — Barbara Kingsolver

The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization. — Roger Kimball

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician. — Tunku Abdul Rahman