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Quotes by Irish Authors
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
"The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast."
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
"Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning."
"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
"Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there."
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
"Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."
"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."
"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."
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