Dalkey Quotes & Sayings

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas. — Maeve Binchy

How do you see this tree? Is it green?
... Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible. — Paul Gauguin

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires. — Rafael Yglesias

True faith will always show itself by its fruits ... I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived. — J.C. Ryle

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it. — Jam Master Jay

Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after — Casey Hudson

Only those who row the boat make waves — Christina Dodd

The worst speculative Sceptic ever I knew, was a much better Man than the best superstitious Devotee & Bigot."
"I must inform you, too, that this was the way of thinking of the Antients on this Subject. If a Man made Proffession of Philosophy, whatever his Sect was, they alaways expected to find more Regulaity in his Life and Manners, than in those of ignorant & illiterate. — David Hume

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results. — Sheryl Sandberg

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. — Philippa Gregory

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government. — Marianne Williamson

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. — Robert Breault

Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal. — Wanda Sykes

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality? — Kara Dalkey

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country. — George William Norris

But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? — Richard Dawkins