Don Shipley Quotes

#1. People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

Jenny Shipley

#2. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

Clarice Lispector

#3. We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#4. I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

David Geffen

#5. The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Henri Nouwen

#6. The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than admit that words could lose their meaning.

Don DeLillo

#7. Hope, by itself, is a car without gas. You need to fuel it with action.

E.J. Divitt

#8. The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

Dan Webster

#9. I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

Edwin Moses

#10. Answers are bitter things, and once you get them, they're yours and you can't give them back. Did I want to know badly enough that I was willing to live with whatever answer she gave me?
Toby

Seanan McGuire

#11. Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Alvin Adams

#12. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ...

William Shakespeare

#13. The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he

Teresa Of Avila

#14. I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.

Jenny Shipley

#15. If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

Eric Burdon