Tony Abbott Quotes

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

Tony Abbott

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• Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Process
  • Rise
  • Progressive

• I always have issues with trust.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Trust
  • Always
  • Issues

• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Issues
  • Environmental
  • Table

• Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Place
  • Issues
  • Election

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Image

• It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Integrity
  • Issues

• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Issues
  • Subjects

• The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. New York made a powerful statement [legalizing marriage equality], not just for the people of New York, but for people all across this nation.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Marriage

• You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

  

  T.I.
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Issues

• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Study
  • Bible

• One of the ways that my show has been most successful is when it's dealing with women's issues, like Spanx and plucking and having heavy tits. That's why it feels like, creatively, an advantage.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Women
  • Why
  • Way

• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • May
  • America
  • Society

• The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Issues

• When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Money
  • Immigration

• Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, are motivated by all kinds of issues. They're sincerely interested in the economy, in terrorism, in social issues. But the one overriding thing they're interested in is getting reelected. And if they think that it's harder for them to get reelected by cooperating with each other, then they won't cooperate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Issues
  • Motivated

• I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Issues

• I still think that with any candidate, whoever gets elected, there are going to be certain issues or platforms that those who feel strongly can work with him on. You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer. You can't be the perfect president.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Issues
  • Singer
  • Candidate

• There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Democracy
  • Issues
  • Congress

• No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

  

  T. J. Oshie
  • Real
  • Hero
  • Camo

• Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

  

  Richard von Weizsaecker
  • Secret
  • Redemption
  • Longer

• My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Issues
  • Progressive
  • Moderate