Irlands President Quotes & Sayings

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there. — Josie Loren

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke. — Margo Lanagan

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might. — Matthew Henry

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything. — Patti Hansen

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy. — Paul Tournier

We'd seen firsthand how the man handled a crisis. If Marcia decided suddenly to brandish a stapler in a half-threatening manner, he'd fumble with his Motorola and forget his name. — Joshua Ferris

I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy — Dean Martin

My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it's a curse; nobody likes it when there's somebody to remember what they've tried so hard to bury. — Cecelia Ahern

...Andrew Feldman put £2,000 behind the bar, and [David] Cameron told a joke about a farmer inviting a new neighbour to come to his house for a party where there might be dancing, drinking and 'rough sex'. When the neighbour asks what to wear, the farmer says, 'It doesn't matter, it's only going to be you and me. — Tim Shipman

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology ... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins. — Nadine Gordimer

Even if, right then, he could not name the condition, he recognized what it felt like. It felt like each moment of what he'd once been able to call his life were being reshuffled over and over like a deck of cards. — Lynn Kostoff