Pirrie Titanic Quotes & Sayings

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? — Carroll O'Connor

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. — Bruce Barton

There are great scholars and wonderful teachers all over the world. Many of them humbly and effectively teach truth, but others do not. God gives us the gift of the Holy Ghost so we can discern what is true and what is not, and He expects us to seek truth wherever we can find it. Temple truths are a marvelous measuring rod by which we can measure everything else. — John H. Groberg

That's what people used to tell my parents," Verne said. "Why 'Verne'? they'd ask. And my parents would say, 'No, he's just small for his age. — Robert Kroese

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes. — Madonna Ciccone

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John Von Neumann

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky. — H.G.Wells

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place. — Ann Brashares

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in. — Charlie Hunnam

Sometimes he wonders whether this very idea of lonliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely, that there is something strange and unnacceptable about the life he has. — Hanya Yanagihara

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. — Edward Bernays

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them. — Thich Nhat Hanh