Famous Nz Rugby Quotes & Sayings

My plea to you is to start sweating the small stuff at the expense of some of the big stuff. Washington isn't the land of vast, radical changes, it's a battleship waiting to be nudged in the right direction. Let the legions of information-obese fight on the front lines, and join me in nudging the small nuts and bolts that hold the ship together. — Clay A. Johnson

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down. — Caryll Houselander

I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates. — Nicolas Winding Refn

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights. — Rand Paul

What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever. — Julie Anne Peters

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China. — John Howard

Nobody knows what death is,
nor whether to man
it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
yet people fear it as if they surely knew
it to be the worse of evils. — Socrates

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along. — Bruce Springsteen

What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible. — Austin Wright

I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver - I had to work my way up to where I am now. If I had given up, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. I would have so many regrets. — Christina Loukas

You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness - confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light. — David Wilkerson

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The third week of June, and there it is again: the same almost embarrassing familiar breath of sweetness that comes every year about this time. I catch it on the warm evening air as I walk past the well-ordered gardens in my quiet street, and for a moment I am a child again and everything before me - all of the frightening, half-understood promises of life. — Michael Frayn

It's just that I don't like the quiet. I don't like the things I hear there. — Alexandra Bracken