Shanty Irish Quotes & Sayings

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more. — Paul Valery

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code. — Frederick Lenz

There's joy all around, if you only look for it. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

just as I told Kathleen that very first day when I seen 'er, all looking fresh and pert as the flowers in May . . . I said to 'er, 'One at a time and easy does it, and wash up proper after.' Dr. Carr keeps telling them, but it's a battle to get them to listen, and the careless ones pay the price." Mrs. Walker had chatted herself into a disheartened state. "It's rare to meet a proper young lady these days. Though Kathleen Boland could 'ave passed for a princess. Until she opened that shanty-Irish mouth of 'er's." I — Owen Parry

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. — Ralph Nader

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana

It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium. — John Dos Passos

Kill yourself because of what you are, yes, but not because all humanity would spit in your face! — Emil M. Cioran

Perseverance never loses — Tim Gnazale

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. — Immanuel Kant

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do - it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston

In the ritual of baptism, our ancestors acted out the bizarre truth of the Christian identity: We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love. There — Rachel Held Evans

the scarred face of a clone, the features an echo of so many faces from Vader's past. Rex. Cody. Fives. Echo. The roster of names moved through Vader's mind, each of them a trigger for a memory, each of them a ghost from his past. — Paul S. Kemp