Tim Costello famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
-- Tim Costello

#Leadership #Australia #Water
I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.
-- Tim Costello

#Unique #Opportunity #Thinking
Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.
-- Tim Costello

#Destiny #Community #Common
We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.
-- Tim Costello

#Confused #Perspective #Cost

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

Tim Costello famous quotes

You may also like: