Ballaghaderreen News Quotes & Sayings

Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out. — Shannon L. Alder

Most grown-ups are never happier than when they have someone to look down on, and the Cooper Island Farsiders couldn't have been more delighted that they had the Cooper Lowsiders to despise. As long as the Farsiders had their immediate neighbors to oppress, they were saved the exacting inconvenience of recognizing their own shortcomings. — Emma Kennedy

We [postmodernists] can safely navigate the danger of life, detached from the true and everlasting dangers of obedience and commitment, for nothing has the right to make a claim on our souls. — R. R. Reno

See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate. — CM Punk

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex. — Matt Ridley

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

Lederman is also a charismatic personality, famous among his colleagues for his humor and storytelling ability. One of his favorite anecdotes relates the time when, as a graduate student, he arranged to bump into Albert Einstein while walking the grounds at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The great man listened patiently as the eager youngster explained the particle-physics research he was doing at Columbia, and then said with a smile, That is not interesting. — Sean Carroll

I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come directly from God, they can have monumental impact on our psyches, our spirits, our hearts, and our relationships. Women are given, in story at least, first place in the lifeboats, but often in more common circumstances we are consigned to the back of the bus. — Carol Lynn Pearson

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? — Taner Edis

Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256) — Charles Baxter

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge. — Theodor W. Adorno

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody. — Mahatma Gandhi

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men. — Raf Simons

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. — Samuel Grafton