Oloughlins Menu Quotes & Sayings

I'm lucky I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family. — James Fox

A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published — Charlotte Bronte

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds. — Rebecca Solnit

You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely. — Italo Calvino

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. — Cherie Lunghi

Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes. — Markus Zusak

For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is their assurance that they are "dead with Christ", "crucified with him", "buried with him", "planted together in the likeness of his death". All this creates in them the assurance that they will also live with him. "We with Christ"
for Christ is Emmanuel, "God with us." Only when we know Christ in this way is our being with him the source of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand De Jouvenel