Failte Isteach Quotes & Sayings

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal, — Rick Scott

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. — Josiah Royce

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique. — Nikki Sixx

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human. — John Naisbitt

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul. — David Peace

I love you, I really do...I just don't like you very much right now. — Nerine Petros

Language overlaps with culture but is not subsumed by it — John McWhorter

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. — Alain De Botton

Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange. — Milton Friedman

We all are weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Some times that weakness is a strength in dusguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Some times it is both. A wise man seeks to find a lesson from it. A fool lets it control and destroy him.
And sometimes the wise man is the fool. — Christie Golden

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator. — Martin Luther

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal. — Jennifer Connelly

No beauty product is going to give you ensurety about charm on your face. Its natural so natural ways can only help. Less tension , more laugh, more water. — Nikhil Yadav