Anna Bligh Quotes

#1. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla

#2. A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Anna Bligh

#4. When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Twyla Tharp

#5. This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will,

Anna Bligh

#6. Build your strength in love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Patrick Pearse

#8. There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.

Al Gore

#9. We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Tony Abbott

#10. You are so spoiled, and you are so obnoxious ... but I'm here.

Kiera Cass

#11. The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#12. Take risks in order to innovate

Anna Bligh

#13. My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Lenny Kravitz

#14. I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

Anna Bligh

#15. You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

Nick Woodman

#16. Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#17. As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.

Anna Bligh

#18. Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

Richard Mourdock

#19. She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.

Milan Kundera