Eilireland Quotes & Sayings

Madness is like wine: small amounts are inspiring, but too much can make you ill. — Neel Burton

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. — Kristen Wiig

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions. — Umar

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
— Emily Dickinson

Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way. — Christina Stead

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love. — Shakira

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions. — Bertrand Russell

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole. — Harry Graf Kessler

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean. — Chuck Klosterman

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. — Mahmoud Abbas

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. — Voltaire