Brian Cowen Quotes

#1. His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.
Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010

Joe Biden

#2. For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#3. Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.

Paul Hoffman

#5. Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Jacques Chirac

#6. I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Paula Abdul

#7. As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit ... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

Brian Cowen

#8. I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.

Brian Cowen

#9. Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.

Emily Dickinson

#10. I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

Brian Cowen

#11. There were a couple of occasions when it was passed around - and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale!.

Brian Cowen

#12. There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Marianne Williamson

#13. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Wes Anderson

#14. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

#15. 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Adam McKay

#16. Bodybuilding isn't 90 minutes in the gym..it's a lifestyle

Lee Priest

#17. We have seen already how resistant public opinion is, firstly to comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale behind the decisions we have had to take.

Brian Cowen

#18. A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

#19. I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

Diane Keaton

#20. Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

Tina Brown

#21. I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.

Brian Cowen