Laoisedcentre Quotes & Sayings

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject. — Ann Rinaldi

I could had stopped or side-stepped her, only I hadn't wanted to, so I didn't. My mind worked like that at times, do or not, no middle. — Sela Ordaz

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us! — David Trumble

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. — William Hazlitt

Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ... — John Wyndham

She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales. — Susanna Clarke

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call. — Wayne Cordeiro

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris. — RZA

Under the leadership of Henry Kissinger, first as Richard Nixon's national security adviser and later as secretary of state, the United States sent an unequivocal signal to the most extreme rightist forces that democracy could be sacrificed in the cause of ideological warfare. Criminal operational tactics, including assassination, were not only acceptable but supported with weapons and money. A CIA internal memo laid it out in unsparing terms: On September 16, 1970 [CIA] Director [Richard] Helms informed a group of senior agency officers that on September 15, President Nixon had decided that an Allende regime was not acceptable to the United States. The President asked the Agency to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him and authorized up to $10 million for this purpose. . . . A special task force was established to carry out this mandate, and preliminary plans were discussed with Dr. Kissinger on 18 September 1970. — John Dinges

If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. — David Mitchell