Irish Statements Quotes & Sayings

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way. — Mark Twain

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. — Peter Bart

if you don't find a loyal one in the world you be the one — Saki

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure. — Joyce Meyer

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment — Chris Prentiss

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel. — Maria Semple

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. — Harry Mathews

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is but today's dream. — Kahlil Gibran

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home. — Barry Manilow

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, — Gerald Edelman

Leaders never hesitate to miscount or destroy ballots. Coming to office and staying in office are the most important things in politics. And candidates who aren't willing to cheat are typically beaten by those who are. Since — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita