Diarmuid Oscannlain Quotes & Sayings

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one. — Alan Parry

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ... — David Bowie

...erosion control in Japan is like a game of chess. The forest
engineer, after studying his eroding valley, makes his first move, locating and building
one or more check dams. He waits to see what Nature's response is. This determines the
forest engineer's next move, which may be another dam or two, an increase in the former
dam, or the construction of side retaining walls. After another pause for observation, the
next move is made and so on until erosion is checkmated." (An Agricultural Testament) — Albert Howard

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. — Matthew Macfadyen

Please stop, I said politely - he was that big. One should always mind one's manners around big things. — Lish McBride

live longer, stay younger, grow far happier — Robin S. Sharma

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything. — Anthony Jeselnik

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it. — Eckhart Tolle

The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves. — Steven Pressfield

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. — Leon Kass

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen. — Suzanne Collins

Read for enjoyment, but also read to learn. — Wade Belknap Jr

that I thought of you - of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks

bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands — John Daniel Thieme