Wayne Swan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
-- Wayne Swan

#Cost #Way #Climate
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
-- Wayne Swan

#Artist #People #Profound
Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
-- Wayne Swan

#Exercise #People #Focus
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
-- Wayne Swan

#Commitment #Government #Australia
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
-- Wayne Swan

#Opportunity #World #Firsts
The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
-- Wayne Swan

#Cancer #Enormous
Australians have defied global economic gravity.
-- Wayne Swan

#Economic #Gravity

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.
Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you canâ€™t own it. You can spend it, but you canâ€™t keep it. And once youâ€™ve lost it, there is no getting it back. Itâ€™s just gone.
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
To justify God's ways to man.
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Wayne Swan famous quotes

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