Armagh Quotes

#1. Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting
it has been found wanting, and not tried.

Os Guinness

#2. A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Louis MacNeice

#3. Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

Sam Neill

#4. The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

Santosh Kalwar

#5. So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date.

Steven Wright

#6. It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.

Mary Ellen Mark

#8. I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

W.C. Fields

#9. Some automatic responses are good - they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own - or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.

John Shirley

#10. Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

Pope Clement VIII

#11. One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

John Danilovich

#12. But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

Samuel Beckett

#13. If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

George Burns

#14. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

Noam Chomsky