Offaly Quotes & Sayings

Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating. — Sarah Addison Allen

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision. — Liu Xiaobo

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy — Laini Taylor

Just what she needed. More filth in her soul. Someday, maybe, she would explode from it, someday maybe, every rotten thing that had every been done to her and every rotten thing she'd ever done would erupt from her in a fountain of sewage and sorrow, all those secrets she kept even from herself spilling out and adding to the muck she could never wash off no matter how hard she tried.
She'd never been bound by magic to keep those secrets. Just by her own shame. — Stacia Kane

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night. — Bryce Harper

And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves. — Joe Biden

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term, — Kwame Kilpatrick

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful ... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. — Mary Lou Retton

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. — Jane Pauley

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be. — Erin Watt

In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Changing organizations comes down to changing human behavior. — Gregory P. Shea