Devenneys Pub Quotes & Sayings

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. — Ambrose Bierce

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. — Eduardo Galeano

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues. — William Gilmore Simms

Hope without love is hopeless. — Dejan Stojanovic

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. — Graham Coxon

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me. — Joyce Rupp

Millie's car cornered like a beached whale, and the brakes required brute force to get them to - you know - stop. It explained a lot about my aunt's driving style. The — Joelle Charbonneau

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters. — Peter Yarrow

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful. — John R. Allen

This chance will stand before you only once. — Sandra Day O'Connor

You never know what way life goes. Some of it makes no sense at all. — Colm Toibin

Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past... — Henry Harland

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip. — Ned Sublette

You're right, I do indeed want you. That doesn't change the fact that you're an asshole. — Lexi Cubbins

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters. — Lynda Barry