Blasket Islands Quotes & Sayings

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. — David Brinkley

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea. — Lewis Carroll

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations. — Azim Premji

They decreed that rabbis were no longer to function as rabbis, that they could not teach, or decide Jewish questions in rabbinical courts, or be paid by their community. Each of them had to announce in the Yiddish press that he had ceased all rabbinical duties and that no one was to consult him about anything. This was to be the end of hundreds and hundreds of years of religious life. — Lucy Beckett

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. — Martial

Farewell Pony: Our little friend, the Pony, is to run no more ... Thou wert the pioneer of a continent in the rapid transmission of intelligence between its peoples, and have dragged in your train the lightning itself, which, in good time, will be followed by steam communication by rail. Rest upon your honors ... Rest then, in peace; for thou hast run thy race, thou hast followed thy course, thou hast done the work that was given thee to do. - Sacramento Daily Bee, October 26,1861 — Stephanie Grace Whitson

Sunshine helps to make man patient. — Victor Hugo

One secret to wisdom:
think more, speak less.
If you let your words be few,
your troubles will not be many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun. — Gerald R. Ford

Anything we want to do, we can do. If we can dream it, it can be done. — Dov Charney

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man. — Tom Riley