Tookey Wigington Quotes & Sayings

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder. — David Feherty

Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end. (Laughter) I'm more optimistic about the staying power of what's good in this country. But just because you have a wonderful spouse doesn't mean you should treat her badly. You have the feeling that some of the old virtues [that made this country great] are lessening. But there's so much good and so much strength left that I would not expect this country to suddenly founder ... — Charlie Munger

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year. — Arin Paul

It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it. — Paul Auster

Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live. — Kosho Uchiyama

I would find you down the line with broken wings, pick you up, and swear that you would taste the sky again. — Pleasefindthis

He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures. — Nikki Rowe

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent. — H.P. Lovecraft

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld] — Michael Schumacher

My problem now was that no one was will- ing to look deep enough to see the real me that lay dormant beneath the surface. Everyone thought I was a trouble maker, the bad boy, the punk.
I wasn't. I was just broken. - Chase — Lacey Weatherford

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. — Jo Brand

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. — J.B. Priestley