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

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• 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

• 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

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Him

• The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Friendship
  • United States
  • Israel

• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Sports
  • Result
  • Projects

• In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Country
  • Law
  • Democracy

• I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Travel

• 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