Augusta Gregory Quotes

#1. I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people

Robin Hobb

#2. And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know what way they were going, and they heard the noise of a rider coming towards them. 'It would be a great grief to us,' said Conn, 'to be brought away into a strange country.

Lady Augusta Gregory

#3. The desert, with its endless monotony, put him to dreaming.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

George Takei

#5. John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

William Butler Yeats

#6. The journey of a lifetime is within, you are your own destination. Rick Jarow

Brian O'Raleigh

#7. And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Lady Augusta Gregory

#8. He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits.

Lady Augusta Gregory

#9. If the past year were offered me again,
And choice of good and ill before me set
Would I accept the pleasure with the pain
Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Lady Augusta Gregory

#10. Cold-blooded? Me? Hardly. I'm the ultimate purveyor of justice, an executioner with a flawless track record and crystal clear conscience.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#11. If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Timothy Keller

#12. He smiled, showing lovely squared teeth. All the better to bite you with, my dear.

Jeaniene Frost

#13. I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Charlize Theron

#14. The woman who had escaped with her life now wept for the loss of her umbrella and was not at all grateful that her limbs were intact.

Joseph Roth

#15. It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.

Deji Olukotun

#16. She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

Lady Augusta Gregory

#17. The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

Jurgen Habermas