Favourite New Zealand Quotes & Sayings

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it. — Kirsten Dunst

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide. — Arthur Miller

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. — Armie Hammer

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants. — Graham Elliot

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. — Albert Ellis

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss. — Edward Abbey

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth. — Thomas Jefferson

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson

Since it's clear then that what sets itself in motion is eternal, who could fail to attribute such a nature to the soul. Anything set in motion by external impetus is inanimate; what is animate moves by its own interior impulse. This is the nature and power of soul. And because it is the one thing out of all that sets itself in motion, then surely it was never born and will last forever. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When in doubt, stay and pray. Expect God to work out your situation at hand. The worse your scenario is the greater and better victory God will prove to you. — Brian Summy

I love coffee, I love my family, I love being in New Zealand - that's honestly one of my top five favourite things - faith is important to me, and I hope to be married one day. I love that coffee was number one. — Zac Farro

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones. — Franz Kafka