Western Australian Sayings

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

Paul Keating

#2. None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

Anthony Albanese

#3. Do you want to be kept in a little cage? No! Because it is a horror! But then why do you keep a little bird in a cage?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

#5. It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice.

Larry R. Lawrence

#6. Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.

Peter Capaldi

#7. It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

Todd Starnes

#8. I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

Michael Leunig

#10. Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Arthur Desmond

#11. Once a day, after you've done your day's work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share.

Austin Kleon

#12. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Thomas Fuller

#13. She's nothing I've ever wanted in a girl. And absolutely everything I need.

Colleen Hoover

#14. With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Guy Debord

#15. I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Clint Eastwood

#16. Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.

Jozy Altidore

#17. The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn't love, but gratitude.

Kelly Moran

#18. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence of it.

Kenneth Roberts