Murtaghs Of Sandymount Quotes & Sayings

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original. — Henri Bergson

If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid. — Jack LaLanne

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job. — Joseph M. Kyrillos

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude. — Joseph Heller

What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day."
"I lost..." Noah struggled for words. "There wasn't air. It went away. The - the line!"
"The ley line?" Gansey asked.
Noah nodded once, a sloppy thing that was sort of a shrug at the same time. "There was nothing ... left for me." Releasing Ronan, he shook out his hands.
"You're welcome, man," Ronan snarled. He still couldn't feel his toes.
"Thanks. I didn't mean to ... you were there. Oh, the glitter."
"Yes," Ronan replied crossly. "The glitter. — Maggie Stiefvater

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself. — Kahlil Gibran

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth

Mere numbers could not overawe us unless we lent them, from our own resources, that awfulness which they themselves could no more supply than a banker's ledger. — C.S. Lewis

Poetry: Language against which we have no defences. — David Whyte