Kaikoura Peninsula Quotes & Sayings

Your light burns so bright. I never had a chance. Your fire enchants me, and I'd do anything to be near this fire, even if it meant death. — K. Webster

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. — Payne Stewart

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm like a friend admitting some reprehensible bit of behavior that forever warps and taints the relationship. Only I'm not a friend. I think I understand her obvious discomfort. Strangers are supposed to lie. — Paul Tremblay

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong.
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart. — Anonymous

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. — Anne Roiphe

Ecosystem thinking is systematic thinking about ecosystem and environment. — Pearl Zhu

If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family. — Gillian Flynn

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you. — Julia Cameron

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture. — Kate Millett

Of what use are words of wisdom to the man who is unwise?
Of what use is a lamp to a man who is blind?
Hear the essence of thousands of sacred books: to help others is virtue: to hurt others is sin.
A man rises or goes down by his own actions: like the builder of a wall, or the digger of a well.
The narrow-minded man thinks and says: 'This man is one of us; this one is not, he is a stranger. To the man of noble soul the whole of mankind is but one family.

- quoted in the introduction, ascribed to the Hitopadesa — Juan Mascaro

In the years of my life, nothing extraordinary had happened to me. Not until Jack.
Not until this man, this man who could have anyone - who by all accounts had had lots of anyones - had begun to peruse me. His interest in me was so unexpected, and yet felt so right. I did not know why, but unlike anyone before him, he made me feel special, he made me feel like I stood out from all the women in the world. And he made me want to do lots of wild and crazy and extraordinary things. — Dorothy Koomson

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe. — Hugh Ross

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues. — Paula Creamer