Diarmuid Ua Duibhne Quotes & Sayings

Comedy is tragedy revisited. — Phyllis Diller

If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich — Su Shi

If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming. — Gene Stratton-Porter

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner. — Louise Erdrich

Can you imagine someone handing Peter a microphone on Sunday morning and whispering, "Okay, now, you've got twenty minutes. We have to get the people out of here promptly because the chariot races start at one o'clock"? — Jim Cymbala

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. — Abraham Lincoln

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job. — Lynne Tillman

Sleep easy, Ember. — Kristen Simmons

Once this bubble of self-deception is burst and the mask that shielded her and others from what she wished to ignore is lifted, it is difficult for the woman to return to her life as it was. It has been said that "the discovery of a deceiving principle, a lying activity within us, can furnish an absolutely new view of all conscious life." This reawakened awareness changes the upscale abused woman's life forever. Suddenly, new choices stand before her. This can be a frightening and sad phase in therapy, a moment when the woman is grappling with a kaleidoscope of loss and potential future gain. Some women experience this period as the dark night of the soul. It can be sickening to face the truths one has chosen to ignore in hopes of maintaining the status quo. Even if the woman wishes to stay married, she will never perceive her life in the same way again. — Susan Weitzman