#zeal

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #back #capable #company #early

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

#chiefly #fit #flourishes #fools #men

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#eggs #i #myself #new #new zealand

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#grass #grow #peak #volcano #which

Zeal will do more than knowledge. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#more #than #will #zeal

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#greatest #insidious #liberty #meaning #men