people-from-new-south-wales

"The popular idea of an advocate of women's rights is this:—she is an angular hard-featured withered creature with a shrill, harsh voice, no pretence to comeliness, spectacles on nose, and the repulsive title, "blue-stocking" visible all over her. Metaphorically she is supposed to hang half way over the bar which separates the sexes, shaking her skinny fist at men and all their works. I don't think it will be difficult to unseat this idea as soon as we can get people to think about the subject at all, for it is remarkable that almost every thinking man who does investigate the topic seriously, at once hands in his allegiance."

"I note that a common but faulty view is that, like a satellite navigator, conscience gives us directions from outside our own moral reasoning. The classical Christian conception of conscience is of the natural perception of basic moral principles, their application in particular circumstances, and the final judgment about what is to be (or has been) done. Without shared objective principles, "conscientious" belief becomes window-dressing for the raw expression of preference or power. But conscience must be both well-informed and well-formed if it is to be a reliable guide to action."

"It is the Eucharist that invites us to be part of the mission of Christ. We need life in the Sydney Church to flourish."

"while we believe in the democratic process, the best decisions are made when we do the right thing for the right reason."

"The Bishops of Oceania humbly request the universal Church to speak directly to victims of abuse, to take all necessary concrete steps to prevent abuse in the future and to become the leader of the local churches in this field."

"For non-believers and believers, I think that a fair amount of people will see it as a great salute to an extraordinary Australian who pioneered education for indigenous people, education more broadly, who did so much to help so many other people."

"It is so much easier to do the job if you're on the ground in Rome. The Vatican is not entirely a closed shop, but you have to know where to look, which conferences to attend, which contacts to pursue."

"The universal call to holiness espoused by the Council, encourages all to be actively part of the life of the pilgrim Church. The primacy of conscience re-affirmed by Vatican II, respects the unique responsibility each Christian has before God."

"Walking with the poor, living with their ambiguity and uncertainties, being truly catholic and inclusive are just some of the challenges which we face as Church if we are to be true to the Gospel. As well, we need to be a humbler Church, a less clerical Church, a more forgiving Church. We should seek to minister to whole persons, not just to their intellects if we are to offer them a true experience of God as revealed in Jesus."

"There is a lot of pollution that is happening that affect our environment and our animals."

"I don't believe that this unbelievable greed for money in a hurry is worth destroying the land and the water for generations to come."

"Too much money never does make anyone good."

"why hang on when most of these coal mines are operating at a loss"

"I implore you and the Labor Party to govern like every decision, and every year, matters. Because it really, really does."

"Every tonne of carbon dioxide that we emit adds to global warming. And every fraction of a degree of further warming will cause climate impacts to become more frequent and more intense."

"There is evidence that some corals are now dying on the most severely affected reefs."

"Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. They’re an exceptional record of past climate."

"Climate change is already impacting every inhabited part of our planet."

"I spend every day looking at the data that tells us each of those climate extremes will keep getting worse."

"My research focuses on how the Earth’s climate has behaved over the last millennium, and what that tells us about the climate changes we are seeing now."

"I am a climate scientist who has spent the last two decades studying how our climate is changing and sharing our increasingly urgent and frightening findings with the world."

"Some coral varieties are also more heat-resistant, and a particular reef that has been exposed to high temperatures in the past may better cope with the current conditions."

"The past climate records that I develop come from corals, caves and ice cores, and I combine these with climate model data to study climate changes."

"Coral bleaching is the greatest threat to the sustainability of coral reefs worldwide and is now clearly one of the greatest challenges we face in responding to the impact of global climate change."

"The best and the worst things you hear about him are both true."

"The beginnings of the Church in Oceania were the actions of the providence of God. Reflecting on our present and preparing for the future benefits from recalling the elements of the beginning of the Church in Oceania. A methodology is needed to achieve this. The method of "lectio divina" could provide the basis of such a methodology. The path of the Church to be opened by Christ will become clear when there is meditation and contemplation upon the situation of the Church."

"Children are all important in Papua New Guinea's culture. Special care is given to their education in customs to ensure that tradition is handed down from one generation to the next. Since Christmas celebrates the birth of the Child, it fits well into the PNG mindset. For all our children the Child Jesus is a model and a friend."

"We've been saying for decades and decades that faith is at home and in the parish, and now it's literally at home, this sort of language has been part of that church for a long time, but now it's actually what it is."

"I absolutely love Bela Lugosi's Count. One thing that always interesting to bear in mind in the great history of Dracula is that, I think almost without exception the film's release has always been surrounded by controversy. Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula at the time was regarded as essentially a kind of B-movie piece of junk. Whereas now, I think it has real luster and appeal to people. I looked at Bella's Count again because Steve was interested in pursuing a sense of the old Universal films, I thought it was kind of good to do that."

"I think Richard forgets he is an actor," Colloca once said. "He never talks about it, he never wants to watch himself. I am the one who is always trying to get him out to see shows. Richard says it can be a stupid profession and he is right."

"I really was keen on not doing his as a heinous arch-villain. But as person who was, at some state, a complex psychological being and a warrior on par with Van Helsing, and in fact a sort of brother in arms to Van Helsing. So one thing I attached myself to quite early was a kind of... because they come from the foothills of the Carpathians and nobody knows what the hell people looked like or spoke like back then, you know, 500 years ago. One thing that I kind of attached myself to was a sort of gypsy look. There's always been Romany going through that area. There's a look that's drawn from that history and apart from that, there are sound psychological reasons for why Dracula does the things that he does in this story, and I like that."

"I’m finding the intrusion of the state into everything in our lives increasingly intolerable, we are being dismantled as thinking adults to the extent that we are dumbing down. Eventually we will become completely politically, spiritually, mentally enfeebled … That’s the future, that’s what we’re looking down the barrel of, and it shits me."

"We will one day think it as horrible to eat animals as we now think it horrible to eat each other."

"I don't remember a thing There's fresh in my mind I've got a weakness bump on my head When a rock hits me harder, I'm dead"

"I never think of anything what I said Ever since I lost my memory, it's like they ran away There was an enemy that's stepped on my feet I ran away and trip me on the street"

"I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them."

"I love Rudy and I remember I was leaving for two months and I wept for like 12 hours on the plane because I wasn’t going to get to see him. So yes. I can relate to my self. … But it was only four years — and not that many boyfriends ago."

"My memory helps my speech So I can think of a word and get it right I can't remember someone else Because my memory has changed"

"It was bizarre and … kind of a fluke … I'm very lucky, it kind of fell into my lap, honestly. I was auditioning for a part for an American project that was filming in Australia, and a manager kind of saw my tape through that, and sort of contacted my Australian representative, and it kind of all just fell into place."

"I think about you And you think about me I'm thinking what my name is I have amnesia I don't even know you I need my memory back"

"If Federation — whether Imperial or of the world — should ever appear in a better light than at present there will be plenty of time to consider it. But for the present, let our colonies try to cultivate a still more brotherly feeling for each other, and the day will come when the sons of all the colonies can clasp hands and say truly, “We are Australians — we know no other land!”"

"It cannot be denied that these colonies are bitterly jealous of each other’s position in the esteem of the English upper crust... We are told that Cain killed his brother Abel because he was jealous of the latter’s influence with the Lord, and we may safely assume that had Cain and Abel been heterodox there would have been no blood spilt between them. On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account. There would of course remain little friendly rivalries between the colonies, but these would only act as spurs to their common prosperity."

"Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world."

"The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage—anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there."

"When the school children of Australia are told more truths about their own country, and fewer lies about the virtues of Royalty, the day will be near when we can place our own national flag in one of the proudest places among the ensigns of the world."

"Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it."

"As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' … I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?"

"Things like radio etc. didn't exist. You passed an aeroplane on the right and the aircraft landing had priority over the one taking off. There was no control tower, and no control. If you were going to practice flying through cloud you told someone on the aerodrome that's what you were going to do and that was enough!"

"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting had inspired any appreciable literature."

"Sex, drugs, and image is just enough to get you by in the real world"