1110 quotes by new zealander authors for you to enjoy

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. John Key

Cancer Few Pain Live Tremendous Tremendous Amount Weeks Had Terminal Off Effectively Just Want Wanted Turn Turn-Off Euthanasia Switch Amount

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. Silvia Cartwright

Home Peace School Quest Begins Workplace

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. Alan Gregg

Adversity Experience Prosperity Face Long Fine Long Experience Had Tradition Surviving Task Human Which Little Race Human Race Now

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony. Andrew Dominik

Sense Having Renowned American Irony

I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast. Anouska Hempel

Love Moving Forward People Wonderful Old Example Think Extraordinary Everyone Station See Thrill Road For Example Also Arriving Off Up Chickens Train Get Sitting Going Hanging Anywhere Moving Turning Laps Forward Fast Mumbai

Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this. Anthony McCarten

Homework Way Easy Easy Way More Around Ambitious Your

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. Bernard Beckett

Thought Compliant Parasite Host Like Without Exist Any Cannot

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it. Edmund Hillary

Simple Seen Despite Out High Thrill Feel Towards Still Climb Mountain Patch Get Snow Same Tiny Experienced Urge

Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up. Emilia Wickstead

Believe More Firmly Red Red Lipstick Terms Lipstick Aside Less Less Is More

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford

Needs You Better Experiment Ought Statistics Done Your

Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself. Gin Wigmore

Myself Black Sheep Way Would Black Sheep Being Describe

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. Jenny Shipley

Women Significant Status Alongside Governments Role Improving Play

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. Jenny Shipley

Future Speak Action Difficult Our Must Insufficient Issues Expect Commitments Children Grandchildren Hollow Us Act Tolerated

The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered. Jenny Shipley

Today Women World Problems Will Others Local Solved Able Potential Facing Never Global Until Discovered Women Are Families Behalf Bank Themselves Use Full Communities Full Potential Serious World Bank

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. Katherine Mansfield

Myself Understanding Others Understand Becoming Am Want Capable

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield

Death Journey Though Never Return Whenever Order Should Prepare

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything. Lorde

Quotes by new zealander authors