Tony Abbott Quotes

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Library
  • Then

• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Marriage
  • Honest
  • Gamble

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Bus
  • Foreman
  • Grill

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Words
  • Government

• I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Together
  • Team
  • Football

• She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Death
  • Baby
  • Said

• On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the government of Sri Lanka to ensure there shouldn't be any violence perpetrated against innocent civilians and the LTTE.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Violence
  • Ensure
  • Civilians

• The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Determined
  • React