Tony Abbott Quotes
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
Tony Abbott
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
Edmund Morgan
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
Malala Yousafzai
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
Ian Mckellen
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.
Jack Cade
They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
Ward Churchill
In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
Abraham Lincoln
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud