Tony Abbott Quotes

The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this vote on same-sex marriage out there.

Tony Abbott

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• Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Marriage

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Together
  • Positive
  • Vote

• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Commitment
  • Grief

• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Judge
  • Vote
  • Presidential

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Write

• Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Fall
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Man
  • Marriage

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage
  • Bed
  • Legs

• A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • She
  • Opportunity
  • Hair

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • People

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this vote on same-sex marriage out there.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Opportunity
  • Marriage
  • Vote