Quotes
Authors
Michael Short
"When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce." --
Michael Short
#Leadership Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Greatness Quotes
“I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.”
“I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.”
“All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.”
“I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.”
“That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.”
“In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.”
“Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.”
Source : Song: A Little Too Much, Album: Handwritten, 2015