Top 84 Gough Quotes
#1. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Jasper Fforde
#2. Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air
Jock Brown
#3. The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
Cate Blanchett
#4. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
Nick Davies
#5. Maybe it's bullshit, I don't know, but they say van Gough used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would bring some happiness inside of him. They claim he was mad, that it was proof he'd gone crazy, but I don't believe it.
J.M. Darhower
#6. The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
John Dyer
#7. Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner
#8. Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.
Tony Whitlam
#9. Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing; he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.
Mungo MacCallum
#10. I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
David Wenham
#12. I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.
Richard Gough
#13. What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.
John Bartholomew Gough
#14. Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth
Darren Gough
#16. Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.
Gough Whitlam
#17. Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic universe is after the zombie apocalypse by hundreds and hundreds of years.
Alfred Gough
#18. I have more influence now than when I had the power.
Gough Whitlam
#19. The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.
Richard Gough
#20. The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.
Richard Gough
#21. I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.
Gough Whitlam
#22. I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.
Richard Gough
#23. One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?
John Bartholomew Gough
#24. I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.
Richard Gough
#25. I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.
Richard Gough
#26. A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
John Bartholomew Gough
#27. It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
John Bartholomew Gough
#28. We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.
Richard Gough
#30. Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
Julian Gough
#31. Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN
Leo Gough
#32. A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
Gough Whitlam
#33. Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.
Alfred Gough
#34. People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.
Michael Gough
#37. There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.
Richard Gough
#38. Vibrant red dirt stretched as far as the eye could see.
O.G. Gough
#39. Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
Alfred Gough
#40. Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.
Gough Whitlam
#41. Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
Gough Whitlam
#42. Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world.
Alfred Gough
#43. I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.
Richard Gough
#45. The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam
#46. Usmanov has got loads of money - we know that from his wealth
Darren Gough
#47. I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
Gough Whitlam
#48. I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.
Gough Whitlam
#49. An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
Gough Whitlam
#50. My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.
Gough Whitlam
#51. I want someone who is proud to be with me, someone who won't turn on me the moment others find out we're together.
Erin Gough
#52. Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.
John Bartholomew Gough
#53. It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
Gough Whitlam
#54. The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Gough Whitlam
#55. I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match
Darren Gough
#56. Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
John Bartholomew Gough
#57. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.
Tanya Karen Gough
#58. As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.
Alfred Gough
#59. There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
Michael Gough
#60. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.
Gough Whitlam
#61. Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.
Gough Whitlam
#62. They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.
Laurie Gough
#63. The fans know their football, you can't kid them.
Richard Gough
#64. When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.
Richard Gough
#65. Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.
Gough Whitlam
#66. My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
Richard Gough
#68. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Bartholomew Gough
#69. I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.
Richard Gough
#70. Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.
Mark Gough
#71. Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.
Gough Whitlam
#72. I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.
Richard Gough
#73. If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.
Gough Whitlam
#74. Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty
Darren Gough
#75. He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.
Gough Whitlam
#76. And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introduce - the idea of spirituality and the idea of there being something else out in the world besides people who are great fighters.
Alfred Gough
#77. Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
Gough Whitlam
#78. Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.
Gough Whitlam
#79. Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.
James Gough
#80. It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.
John Bartholomew Gough
#81. Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.
Gough Whitlam
#82. With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.
Alfred Gough
#83. She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.
Gough Whitlam
#84. I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
Michael Gough
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