Chris Bowen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
-- Chris Bowen

#Real #Tears #Veils
It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.
-- Chris Bowen

#Benefits #Employers #Schemes
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
-- Chris Bowen

#Believe #Goal #Empowerment
I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them
-- Chris Bowen

#Mother #Believe #People
Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.
-- Chris Bowen

#Children #Six #Turns
Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.
-- Chris Bowen

#Long #Decision #Matter

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment itâ€™s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Chris Bowen famous quotes

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