Tony Abbott > Quotes

“The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.”
― Tony Abbott, The Forbidden Stone

“Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!”
― Tony Abbott

“On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.”
― Tony Abbott, Firegirl

“A child who carries a book with a bookmark in it is in two places at the same time.”
― Tony Abbott

“You know what it’s like—you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, ‘How can I protect this person’s right to free speech?”
― Tony Abbott

“At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared that oppositions should oppose everything, propose nothing and turf the government out. He was right in this fundamental respect: the opposition's job is to get elected. Intelligent oppositions have no unnecessary enemies. They make the government rather than themselves the issue by ensuring that everyone harmed by government decisions well and truly
knows about it.”
― Tony Abbott MP

“When people make up their minds about you, they only see you one way, which is the easy way for them.”
― Tony Abbott, The Great Jeff

“She had been forced to accept the idea that what was true, and what couldn't possibly be, were ideas that depended on which life you lived - on which lives you lived.”
― Tony Abbott, The Crown of Fire

“It's a theory," Roald said. "Multiple universes, maybe. Parallel timelines. The idea that every possibility actually exists and that the life we're living is only one of them. There's also the famous butterfly effect. It's chaos theory, pretty heady stuff, but basically it says that a change in something as tiny as the flap of a butterfly's wings can eventually affect the path and strength of something as huge as a hurricane. In other words, if you could keep the butterfly from flying at a certain time and place, you might prevent a hurricane>”
― Tony Abbott, The Crown of Fire

“Good-bye isn't forever.”
― Tony Abbott, Denis Ever After

“Three days ago, Dana had been kidnapped by the Norse god Loki and trapped in the Greek Underworld.”
― Tony Abbott, When Monsters Escape

“Quite soon, the Rudd Government’s attempts to stave off a recession by fiscal sugar hits and propping up uncompetitive businesses will come to seem like putting off the inevitable at unsustainable cost. The public, if not the government, will come to appreciate, in former British Prime Minister Jim Callaghan’s words, that ‘you can’t spend your way out of a recession’. It”
― Tony Abbott, Battlelines

“7, 1, 9, 3, 2, 4, 0. For NC.”
― Tony Abbott, The Serpent's Curse

“.... chasing someone and being chased at the same time. You look in both directions at once.”
― Tony Abbott, The Crown of Fire

“genies.”
― Tony Abbott, The Chariot of Queen Zara

“I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.”
― Tony Abbott, The Summer of Owen Todd

“Wade peeked over his shoulder. “Robin? Wow, bro, I’m sorry. I’m Ross. Robin and Ross. I kinda like Ross better.” Darrell hid the passport in his jeans. “We shall never speak of this again.” “Kids,”
― Tony Abbott, The Golden Vendetta

“We all have a choice, you know. To give or take or do nothing.”
― Tony Abbott, Kringle

“Medallion.”
― Tony Abbott, The Chariot of Queen Zara

“Besides, elvish arms and hands aren't really made for fighting, you know-"
"Whose are?" asked Merwen.
Kringle looked at her and bowed his head. "None," he said finally. "Maybe soon, everyone will know that.”
― Tony Abbott, Kringle

“When Kringle gripped the staff, what had been his hand's normal place on it no longer suited him. It was true. He was taller now.
"I'd rather this was a sword."
"Not a sword. The King of kings never used a sword.”
― Tony Abbott, Kringle

“Air”
― Tony Abbott, The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet

“sets”
― Tony Abbott, The Magic Escapes (The Secrets of Droon: Special Edition #1)

“Everybody on Pasha’s rug! Now — fly!”
― Tony Abbott, Journey to the Volcano Palace

“Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me...”
― Tony Abbott, The Crown of Fire

“In the narrative of the left, Australia was a boring outpost of the British Empire until Gough Whitlam became prime minister, formally ended the White Australia policy, instituted multiculturalism and gave Aborigines land rights. Whitlam’s brief government was certainly a cultural watershed, but not everything that happened before 1972 is irrelevant and not all that happened afterwards is admirable. Australia was never quite the antipodean England of left-wing mythology. People from Africa, Asia and many of the countries of Europe were aboard the early convict fleets, as would be expected in a representative sample of London’s jails. In the 1830s, after the Myall Creek massacre, white men were hanged for the murder of Aborigines. Among the Gold Rush influx were thousands of Chinese, quite a few of whom stayed after the gold they’d chased ran out. The first decade of Australia’s national existence, which brought the passage of the ‘White Australia’ legislation, also saw our first Chinese-speaking MP, Senator Thomas Bakhap.”
― Tony Abbott, Battlelines

“Eric Hinkle wasn’t alone as he hopped”
― Tony Abbott, The Fortress of the Treasure Queen

“If Australia had large and growing gaps between rich and poor, if minorities were persecuted, if we were struggling to meet an existential challenge, there’d be every reason to want fundamental change.”
― Tony Abbott, Battlelines

“ebb and flow”
― Tony Abbott, Moon Magic (The Secrets of Droon: Special Edition #5)

“As with public hospitals, better public schools are likely to emerge when local teachers and parents have more say over how their schools are run. It’s especially important to give parents a direct say in the running of schools rather than just an advisory role. Even”
― Tony Abbott, Battlelines