Finnbar Whelan Quotes & Sayings

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going. — Mike Lowell

Because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth. — Chuck Klosterman

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

-the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant evidence to the contrary surrounding her. She felt that the sniper was essentially a good man because during the siege, she said, he had often shot over her and her husband's heads to warn them that he was watching and that they shouldn't move so carelessly in their own apartment. — Aleksandar Hemon

Once you understand pain, You will never be able to share it with others — Alok Jagawat

From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life. — Gabrielle Zevin

During the war, one out of every four Belarussians was killed; today, one out of every five Belarussians lives on contaminated land. This amounts to 2.1 million people, of whom 700,000 are children. Among the demographic factors responsible for the depopulation of Belarus, radiation is number one. In the Gomel and Mogilev regions, which suffered the most from Chernobyl, mortality rates exceed birth rates by 20%. As — Svetlana Alexievich

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival. — Shannon A. Thompson

Americans today sometimes assume the Founders' references to God or Nature or the Supreme Ruler were just for impact or for propaganda. Not so. These were tightly reasoned statements of legal principles. Your rights to your life, liberty, and property came from your Creator, not the government; these rights cannot be repealed. — Richard J. Maybury

So you're saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that's probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure. — Rachel Vincent

They tell me sir, that Stubb did once desert poor Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin. But I will never desert ye sir, as Stubb did him. — Herman Melville

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. — Masako, Crown Princess Of Japan

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously. — Angela Kinsey

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. — Gwendoline Christie