Tony Abbott Quotes

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

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• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Think
  • Photography
  • General

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • People
  • May
  • Beauty

• You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Family
  • Company
  • Run

• Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Anything
  • Radio
  • Punk

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Like
  • Grow Up

• Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Believe
  • City
  • Environment

• The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Painting

• And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Reason
  • Breath
  • Scarlett

• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Humanity

• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • God
  • Children
  • Prayer

• Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Good
  • Economy

• The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Political
  • Policy
  • Concerns

• Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Universe

• The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Brain
  • Sky
  • Wider

• I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Mean
  • Policy
  • Russia

• So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Live
  • Saying

• Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.

  

  Adelaide Crapsey
  • Fall
  • Sound
  • Listen

• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Policy
  • Forgotten
  • Prime Minister