Kapiti Coast Quotes & Sayings

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister] ... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives. — Nicky Morgan

This study began in an exact and precise manner only with the labours of Professor Charcot at the Salpetriere, on the traumatic accidents of the hystericals: the paralyses, the contractures, mutisms, or anorexias. Everywhere, as we have seen, he showed the importance of the fixed idea which produced and kept up the accident, the reproduction of identical facts by suggestion, the treatment by isolation, and the moral influences which modified not the physical state, but the mental pathological state of the hysterical. It remained to generalise somewhat more this conception — Anonymous

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives. — Kevin R. Stone

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. — Jerry Brown

The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress - that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. — G.K. Chesterton

But there are things you can't consult anybody about. — Saul Bellow

Damn Americans - I hate those bastards. — Carolyn Parrish

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females. — Lewis Thomas

Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great. — Gloria Trevi

Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light. — Rachel Patterson

Sometimes, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. — Harper Lee