Miceal Murphy Quotes & Sayings

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. — George McGovern

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions. — Nancy Spero

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron. — Pieter Zeeman

The sparrow flies south for the winter. — Derek Landy

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners. — Michelle Franklin

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process. — Martin McGuinness

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. — Albert Pike

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history. — Steven Johnson

What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia. — William M. Kelso

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it. — Martin Heidegger

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot

So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer."
"Me? How?"
"The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read."
"Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or both of them."
She didn't say anything. "I didn't have to," I said. "I might have. I suppose, and got away with it. Neither of them would have hesitated to throw lead at."
"That makes you a killer at heart, like all cops."
"Oh, nuts. — Raymond Chandler