Mr Keating Quotes

#1. Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Robin Williams

#2. The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating.

Ann Patchett

#3. 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

#4. Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

Kenneth Keating

#5. The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together

Paul Keating

#6. This is a low flying person

Paul Keating

#7. I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Paul Keating

#8. I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

Charles Keating

#9. 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

#10. Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Paul Keating

#11. 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

#12. Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Thomas Keating

#13. Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Charles Keating

#14. For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

Thomas Keating

#15. God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

Thomas Keating

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

Paul Keating

#19. I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

Paul Keating

#20. I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

Charles Keating

#21. 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

#22. A hug makes you feel good all day.

Kathleen Keating

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

Richard Flanagan

#27. Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Keating

#28. If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

Paul Keating

#29. It does make you a better director and a better actor.

Charles Keating

#30. Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Paul Keating

#31. In the end, rational policy is always good.

Paul Keating

#32. The root of prayer is interior silence.

Thomas Keating

#33. 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

#34. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#35. 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

#36. Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

Charles Keating