Aoibhinn Osullivan Quotes & Sayings

People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world."
"-In Pursuit of Silence — Doris Lessing

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

The capitalist "head office" can allow itself the luxury of creating
and believing its own myths of opulence, but the poor countries on the
capitalist periphery know that myths cannot be eaten. — Eduardo Galeano

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn. — Karen White

O Canada I have not forgotten you,
as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision
of a bookcase.
You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines.
You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on
the wall.
You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp.
You are the dust that coats the roadside berries.
But not only that,
you are the two boys with pails walking along that road. — Billy Collins

I have told you what I have seen and heard - but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it. — William Shakespeare

He was creating the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet. He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird. — Milorad Pavic

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. — Anne Hathaway

Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer ... Realize that the true light is now here and, through the rays of the gospel, is illumining the whole earth. — Gregory Of Nyssa

It was just the way he was made. — Ross Turner

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy. — Lord Acton

The greatest happiness is seeing the people you love happy. — Marty Rubin

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.
-pg.170- — Cassandra Clare

You can't choose who you love, Kelly, but you can waste it. Why on earth would anyone want to waste it? — Suzanne Brockmann

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. — Abdul Qadeer Khan