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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it."
"He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger."
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
"One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
"To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be."
"If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve."
"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too."
"The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary."
"SpringThe season between winter and summer, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe months March, April and May.The ability of something to return to its original shape when it is pressed down, stretched or twisted."
"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."
"Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her."
"In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead."
"No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don't even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal."
"In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer's requirements."
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
"For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past."
"You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love."
"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution."
"This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves."
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
"Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so."
"I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a group who sang a famous song. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can't rest until I know the answer.''I Understand,' he said softly."
"Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."
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