#zeal

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. ↗

— Brian Cox

#crocodiles #eat #especially #full #kinds

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

#had #i #law #overzealous #people

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#behind #dancing #front #get #gets

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#knowledge #light #without #zeal

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#changed #creed #good #got #holds

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complications #country #enough #i #know

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#collector #father #friends #lungs #satisfy

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fishing #half #industry #new #new zealand

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anthem #attack #australia #because #been