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For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. (Edward Young)
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed. View quote
John Howard
I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties. View quote
John Howard
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough. View quote
Henry Royce
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
One of the things I'd learned... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make. View quote
Neil Strauss
Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake. View quote
Andy Partridge
And all the world is football shaped, It's just for me to kick in space, And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to take this all in, I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to taste the difference, 'Tween the lemons and limes, The pain and the pleasure, And the church bells softly chime. View quote
Andy Partridge
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid. View quote
Bill Gates
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem. View quote
Bill Gates
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy. View quote
Bill Gates
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work. View quote
Louis Pasteur
[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera. (Jean-Luc Godard)
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. View quote
George Mason
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. View quote
Sarah Dessen