Quentin Bryce Quotes

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Daily
  • Preparation
  • Bread

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Wisdom
  • Spring
  • Shadow

• I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Small
  • Contentment

• I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

  

  Lilly Singh

• Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Peace
  • Importance
  • Middle

• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women