"It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold."

37 quotes

🇦🇺Heath Ledger

Entertainment

1979–2008

"I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."

"I probably feel a bit threatened, as so many people do... look, it is a fact of life and I try to treat people as people, and not put them in pigeonholes."

"P L Travers : Why is her creation, Mary Poppins, still so popular?" BBC Interview"

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

"I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one."

"There's hopeless smiles better than mine"

"Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.Sonea: I love you too."

"J. M. Coetzee at The New York Review of Books"

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🇦🇺John Diamond (doctor)

Medicine

1934–2021

"We can accept any and all events in our existence if we believe our mothers love us. For, as I say, she was, and still is, all the world to us."

"Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realised that simple nonlinear systems do not necessarily possess simple dynamical properties."

"Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English."

"I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."

5 quotes

🇦🇺Alexandra Adornetto

Entertainment

b. 1992

"I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t."

"But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for."

"I really don’t know why this wasn’t a career ending moment for Tony Abbott. Sexism is no better than racism."

"Evolution actually involves much more than life arising from non-life by natural means. Evolution really does away with God, and thus allows people to explain their existence without any supernatural being involved."

"Sydney Morning Herald article on Steve Killelea"

"Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors."

10 quotes

🇦🇺Christopher Brennan

Literature

1870–1932

"Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"

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🇦🇺Matthew Hayden

b. 1971

"Mahindra is a very natural fit for me. Firstly it is a product that is owned, operated and managed out of India. So there’s that great connection to that link between Australia and India."

"If you are going to take your clothes off for something, it better be a good cause."

"My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God."

"The Fed is a disaster. We should have a discussion in this country about whether we need a Fed."

"I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help."

"I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life"

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath."

"Cinema: An illusion that can only satisfactorily happen in the dark."

"Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great."

"If you say because it's your destiny, I swear to Jebus, I'm gonna start drinking."

"Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?"

"The excesses of the 80s must not reappear in the 90s, The last thing we need now is a return to the 80s philosophy of 'greed is good' and that the only useful interest is self-interest."

38 quotes

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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*"

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"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

— William Shakespeare, b. 1948View →

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

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