Gaiety School Quotes & Sayings

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals ... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. — Isaac Watts

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand. — Ezra Taft Benson

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. — Aidan Turner

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure. — John McAfee

Madison's experience at both the state and the federal level had convinced him that "the people" was not some benevolent, harmonious collective but rather a smoldering and ever-shifting gathering of factions or interest groups committed to provincial perspectives and vulnerable to demagogues with partisan agendas. — Joseph J. Ellis

It wasn't just the look of Dolly that drew us in. It was the attitude that came with knowing how ridiculous people thought she looked, but never changing a thing because she felt good about herself. To us, she is...invincible. — Julie Murphy

The whites, you see, are tempted by their egos and have no means to resist. We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life - you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese. — David Guterson

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company — Mary, Queen Of Scots

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle. — Lao-Tzu

Barrayaran warships tended to be not so much mothballed as hoarded. The eldest members of the General Staff were notorious for an attitude toward ordnance that resembled that of a famine survivor stashing foodstuffs, and perhaps for analogous reasons. Ships that most Nexus militaries would have sent directly to the scrapyards were instead tucked away to age a few more decades like dodgy food in the back of a refrigerator, out of sight, before the Staff - or more likely, its successors - was finally persuaded to give them up. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson

Allow me to say, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love. — Ernesto Che Guevara

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy. — Jim Rohn

The farther we are from one another, the further we live in each other's pasts — Shaun David Hutchinson

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability. — Philip Kapleau