K. J. Bishop Quotes
I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.
I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.
There are many things that I find attractive about a woman. Foremost to me, of course, would be a sense of humor-but that doesn't come in a bottle.
Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion.
They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.
Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
