"New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression."

--

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Daniel Gillies

#Behavior Quotes #Conventions Quotes #Aggression Quotes

“Wise is the one who learns from anotherÂ´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”
“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”
“Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.”

Source : John McPhee (1996). “The Second John McPhee Reader”, p.19, Macmillan
“The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.”
“Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.”
“The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.”
“Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.”
“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.

You may also like: