Paul Keating Quotes
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
Quotes to Explore
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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To act is to rest.
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A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
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'There is more joy in giving than in receiving.' Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
