Typical Kiwi Sayings

#1. If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. In the mid-1600s, Puritan John Gibbon said, "God alone is enough, but without him, nothing [is enough] for thy happiness."[218] Whether or not we're conscious of it, since God is the fountainhead of happiness, the search for happiness is always the search for God.

Randy Alcorn

#3. It's absolutely necessary to know who you are, as the basis for knowing anything else.

M.R. Carey

#4. In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

George Gilder

#5. But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Thomas Hardy

#6. But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.

Immanuel Kant

#7. What about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Rose Macaulay

#8. I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.

Bruce Hoffman

#9. We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves ... We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own ... We demand windows.

C.S. Lewis

#10. It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Elliott Smith

#11. I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#12. There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting-point for further desires

Marcel Proust

#13. We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#14. Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Susan Faludi

#15. I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Wilbur Smith