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Quotes by Irish Authors
"God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!''John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!"
"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one."
"She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband."
"He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."
"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."
"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense, it is the life of the spider."
"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."
"In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man."
"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."
"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
"Intolerance has been the curse of our country."
"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter."
"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."
"When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks."
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
"But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be."
"He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it."
"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."
"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."
"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full."
"I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do."
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
"No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic."
"I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person."
"Orion brightened. 'I have an idea.'Yes?' said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.'Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other."
"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
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