Korokoro New Zealand Quotes

#1. Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

Patricia Ryan Madson

#2. Self-preservation is the fundamental motive of the passions, according to Spinoza; but self-preservation alters its character when we realize that what is real and positive in us is what unites us to the whole, and not what preserves the appearance of separateness.

Anonymous

#3. There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Lou Reed

#4. This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

#5. You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

Peter Bowen

#6. I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book ... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Jared Diamond

#7. I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Sojourner Truth

#8. The beauty of the world ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

#9. 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'

M. C. Gainey