Tony Abbott Quotes

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

Tony Abbott

• Friendship
• Conversation
• Indonesia

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Why
  • Know
  • Doing

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Value
  • Friendship
  • Your

• I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Friendship

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Friendship

• God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In cares of state and private plights,In rowdy feasts of friendship's band,In passion's sweet and secret rites!God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In daily woes and days of strife,On vacant sa, in distant land,In every black abyss of life!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Life
  • God
  • Friends

• The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

  

  James Whistler
  • Life
  • Friendship

• But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Men
  • Friendship

• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Country
  • Family
  • Community

• I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Brother
  • Friendship

• What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Christmas
  • Mushrooms
  • Cookery

• Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Change
  • Attitude

• I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell – ain't no one woman that good.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Moral

• It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Friendship
  • Conversation
  • Indonesia