Tanya Plibersek Quotes & Sayings

18 No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]. — Anonymous

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop? — Brian Tracy

The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall. — Elena Ferrante

Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people! — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven. — John Fante

God's love descends on some like dew on a flower, blessed be He, but sometimes we trudge along our comfortable lives and bam, He descends on us like a splash of gasoline ... and then He strikes a match. — Francisco X Stork

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'. — Elisabeth Elliot

On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many voters dress especially for the occasion ... None quite voice the thought, but those who came in a steady stream to vote seemed to be saying that India may have fallen far behind its neighbors in the struggle for prosperity, but as long as it can choose its governments, it can hope for better in the future. — Shashi Tharoor

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action. — David Brooks

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor

Chafed the hands that held his arm. There, there, there! See — Charles Dickens

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another. — Michael Bergin

Every story is us — Jalaluddin Rumi