David Lange Quotes

#1. We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.

Danny Bautista

#2. One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

David Lange

#3. Christians like faces, Muslims like words.

Dan Brown

#4. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister.
Dead.

Dalton Trumbo

#5. Let the sun shine in our Heart all other places is a extra gift.
Jan Jansen

Jan Jansen

#6. Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

Sloane Crosley

#7. Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

David Lange

#8. ...whatever it was, it wasn't going to make much difference in how I felt about Michael. We belonged to each other. Alex couldn't change that. Jackson couldn't change that.

S.J. Wright

#9. My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

David Lange

#10. A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

Kate Beaton

#11. An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

David Lange

#12. I came like water, and like wind I go

Kerry W. Thornley

#13. Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

Diane Ackerman

#14. Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

David Lange

#15. Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

David Lange

#16. After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

David Lange

#17. This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

David Lange

#18. In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Christian Dior

#19. I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.

David Lange

#20. Death is very, very terminal.

David Lange

#21. I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

David Lange

#22. True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

Therese Of Lisieux

#23. You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

David Lange

#24. I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

David Lange

#25. Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Lange

#26. Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

David Lange

#27. He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Seneca The Younger

#28. We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

David Lange

#29. They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

David Lange

#30. A sensitive message by a sensitive woman :
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 5, 2016
Amen
God

Petra Hermans

#31. George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

David Lange

#32. On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.

David Lange

#33. If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

Baba Kalyani