Brenock Oconnors Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

What good is love if you never ask anything of it? — Robert Breault

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating. — Ai Weiwei

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. — Alva Myrdal

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than argue, it's much better to just say thank you, or I appreciate that and strive to be that compliment. Fools fight compliments, she'd said, and sometimes other people see you better than you can see yourself. — Penny Reid

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ... — Barbara Holland

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. — Janis Ian

We are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now? — Tom Clancy

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance. — Leslie Ford

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories. — Israel Zangwill

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It's vital. — Christiane Amanpour

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS. — Morrie Schwartz.

A motorcyclist rode down the empty street, arms and legs rounded in an O, and came back up with the sound of thunder; his face displayed seriousness of a child who attributes the utmost importance to his howls — Robert Musil

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however. — Stefano Benni

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? — Don DeLillo

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do. — Peter Capaldi