Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Irish Authors - Page 4

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

After 'Paths to Freedom,' I met some people who used to teach drama in Mountjoy and they said that the prisoners loved 'Rats.' We went back to Mountjoy to research this film and the governor was showing us around and he introduced us to a few prisoners.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

Those who know the least obey the best.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.

We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.

In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

The end of art is peace.

I absolutely had a dream of doing 'Man of La Mancha' one day; that's a long time ago.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren't seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

My personality is extremely unbalanced.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we've got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.