Morris West Quotes

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Morris West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: April 26, 1916 - October 9, 1999

Topics

PerfectionImpossibleYouKnowUs

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

Jerry Yang

PowerLookingDataSeriousBigAny

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

Jesmyn Ward

PowerArtExperienceEmpathyWorld

I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.

John Darnielle

GoodPeopleThinkSelfYouBad

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

Matt Gonzalez

WorkPeopleYouWillEngageRespond

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Mary Kay Ash

GoodExerciseYouGoalStretchLike

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Dermot Mulroney

FutureTimeHabitPlanActingOut

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Denis Diderot

GoodFatherWantGood FatherWould

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Donna Rice

DayMeDinnerNightPhoneGroup

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

Brian Dennehy

LifeGoodFatherThinkHumourSense

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Sheryl Sandberg

LiveHusbandLostThroughThing

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Thomas Otway

JusticeBlindUsWellAmongstLame

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

Thomas G. Stemberg

BehaviorCustomerYouPlaceForget

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