Tim Soutphommasane Quotes

#1. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

W. H. Auden

#2. We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is ... BUT GOD IS! -RVM

R.v.m.

#3. I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.

Donald Miller

#4. If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

#5. You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.

Tim Soutphommasane

#6. Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

Tim Soutphommasane

#7. No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

Tim Soutphommasane

#8. Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

Richie Benaud

#10. People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

Tim Soutphommasane

#11. We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

Tim Soutphommasane

#12. People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.

Tim Soutphommasane

#13. The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

John K. Fairbank

#14. Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'

Richard Griffiths

#15. Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

Charles Bukowski

#16. God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses.

Orson Scott Card

#17. I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont ...

Steven Wilson

#18. We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

#19. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

Edgard Varese