Top 100 Keating Quotes
#1. In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
Richard Flanagan
#2. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.
N.H. Kleinbaum
#3. Then why'd you do it?"
"Jealousy," she said without hesitation. "It always comes down to something crude. Don't kid yourself, Keating. It's human nature.
Leah Raeder
#4. The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.
Warren Mundine
#5. Keating had the appearance of a man who was reluctant to say what he had to say
James Runcie
#6. Mikey's father, champion of all pint drinkers, is like my uncle Pa Keating, he doesn't give a fiddler's fart what the world says and that's the way I'd like to be myself.
Frank McCourt
#7. Keating can be somewhat liberal with the profanity, so I shall substitute the word 'albatross' where necessary, and you may read that part privately later.
Suzanne Enoch
#8. The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating.
Ann Patchett
#9. She turned to him. "Hello, Peter."
"You know Peter Keating of course?" Toohey smiled at her.
"Oh, yes. Peter was in love with me once."
"You're using the wrong tense, Dominique," said Keating.
Ayn Rand
#10. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
Ayn Rand
#12. Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it.
Ayn Rand
#13. Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
Patricia Hewitt
#14. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.
Brennan Manning
#15. Keating felt naked ... People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.
Ayn Rand
#16. You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.
Paul Keating
#18. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
#19. Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating
#20. You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
Thomas Keating
#22. If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
Paul Keating
#23. I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
#24. Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.
Paul Keating
#25. In the end, rational policy is always good.
Paul Keating
#27. Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
Thomas Keating
#28. Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
Thomas Keating
#29. Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
Charles Keating
#30. The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
Thomas Keating
#31. It does make you a better director and a better actor.
Charles Keating
#32. With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Frank Keating
#33. The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together
Paul Keating
#35. I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
Paul Keating
#37. Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
Paul Keating
#38. Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
Thomas Keating
#39. Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
Charles Keating
#40. For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
Thomas Keating
#41. God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
Thomas Keating
#42. I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.
Frank Keating
#43. The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
Paul Keating
#44. Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Paul Keating
#45. Anything worth having is worth struggling to achieve.
Kelsey Keating
#46. You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
Paul Keating
#47. Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable ... Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises ...
Thomas Keating
#48. I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.
Thomas Keating
#49. Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
Paul Keating
#50. I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?
Paul Keating
#51. The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating
#52. Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.
Thomas Keating
#53. Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.
Thomas Keating
#54. I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.
Charles Keating
#55. Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
Paul Keating
#56. I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.
Charles Keating
#57. In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.
Thomas Keating
#58. The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.
Thomas Keating
#59. We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
Paul Keating
#60. Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.
Thomas Keating
#61. I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.
Paul Keating
#62. God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
Thomas Keating
#64. For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
Thomas Keating
#65. Pick a side, Max. I feel like I'm living through some vampire romance where you can't be near me because my blood smells delicious.
Lucy Keating
#66. One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
Thomas Keating
#67. Strength is not all about the time that you work out at the gym. You need the heart to truly become one.
Marie Keating
#68. The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
Thomas Keating
#69. If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
Thomas Keating
#71. In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
Charles Keating
#72. Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
Charles Keating
#73. Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
Thomas Keating
#74. In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.
Thomas Keating
#75. You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.
Edward Keating
#76. Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.
Kenneth Keating
#77. If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
Thomas Keating
#78. I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.
William R. Keating
#79. When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
Paul Keating
#80. The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
Thomas Keating
#82. We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.
Thomas Keating
#83. No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
Paul Keating
#84. Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.
Thomas Keating
#85. My soul always knew I was enough as I was created by God
Kara Keating
#86. I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
Paul Keating
#87. God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.
Thomas Keating
#88. Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas Keating
#89. Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
Thomas Keating
#90. The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
Thomas Keating
#91. In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
Thomas Keating
#92. While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
Thomas Keating
#93. While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off
Paul Keating
#94. We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
#95. Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
Thomas Keating
#96. It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
Thomas Keating
#97. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy ... a banana republic.
Paul Keating
#98. The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
Thomas Keating
#99. If you stand tall, you'll be shot at. If you stoop down, you'll get stepped on. Everybody faces this, Ana. It's up to you to decide what you want and who you are.
Jess Keating
#100. I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.
William R. Keating
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