#zeal

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. ↗

— Lewis Black

#closer #hop #i #i believe #islands

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#arrow #bad #bow #clothes #could

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#eloquence #kindness #learning #more #sinners

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ↗

— Owen Feltham

#humanity #liable #like #moment #rudder

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#due #experience #less #shows #success

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #being #cut #early #electricity

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#give #laughter #most #situations #take

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

#beginning #charter #drafting #followed #lot

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land