Irish Stereotype Quotes & Sayings

I'm jus' pain covered with skin. — John Steinbeck

Lord, please protect me from Your people. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me. — James Frey

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. — Leon Bloy

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure — John Wooden

Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. — Thomas Pynchon

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me. — Navid Negahban

The church must change, Brother,' Gheorg had said one day long ago, back when they were still theology students at the University of Leipzig. Christian faith cannot be the tool of a monarch who sells God's pardon in exchange for money and power. Our Lord speaks to ALL men, Mathias. The Church must be a place where all men can meet and pray, not a place where they must submit to the power of other men. God's word must reach everyone equally. — Riccardo Bruni

I'm not working, I want you to be with me. If there's a show you want to see or somewhere you want to eat, we can do that. But I do want you available to me completely at those times. — Adriana Locke

Present is the reality. The past is finished, and the future doesn't exist. When the Kundalini rises She elongates those thoughts and establishes in the center where there is complete thoughtless awareness. And spiritually you grow in that thoughtless awareness which in Sanskrit we call as Nirvichaar Samadhi. — Nirmala Srivastava

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.
'You're being very silent.'
'That's how men cry. — John Fowles

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief. — Stevie Wonder

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon. — Dean Koontz

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience. — Socrates

Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. — Christopher Smart

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others. — Stewart Stafford