Common Australia Sayings

#1. The White House announced on Monday the Prime Minister of Australia will visit President Bush in September. We have a lot in common. Australia started out as a prison colony, while the United States has evolved into one.

Argus Hamilton

#2. There isn't enough paper in the world to write all the poems you inspire in me.

Rae D. Magdon

#3. But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Lauren Oliver

#4. I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Voltaire

#5. The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.

Graham Greene

#6. I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

Lily Cole

#7. Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.

Katrina Kaif

#8. For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge

William Shakespeare

#9. I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm.
Roarke, Naked In Death

J.D. Robb

#10. I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

Jane Siberry

#11. All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

Misty Copeland

#12. All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment.

Matthew Donnelly

#13. The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.

T. S. Eliot

#14. Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world's great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine.

Robin Kaye

#15. In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

Pete McCloskey

#16. Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass!

Anton Chekhov

#17. Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

John Howard

#18. The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

Barack Obama

#19. Actually getting closer to a metaphorical truth? Or metaphorically getting closer to an actual truth?

Haruki Murakami

#20. Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Sinclair Lewis