Irish Short Stories Quotes

#1. It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Stefania Mattana

#2. And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

James Joyce

#3. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

Trevor Noah

#4. Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.

Aleksandr Voinov

#5. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

#6. Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

Bill Engvall

#7. A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Erwin McManus

#8. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

T. Greenwood

#9. Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

Boyd Rice

#11. Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

Nicola Yoon

#12. 'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#13. your body, was as good as anyone's, because your blood was as precious as jewels, and it should never be sold for magic, for spirituals inspired by the unknowable hereafter.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Eliphas Levi

#15. Michael was not himself. He lay on the bed of a stranger,

James Dashner

#16. I was attracted to her from the first time we talked, and soon there was no turning back. For a long time she was the only thing I could think about. I tried to tell her how I felt, but somehow the feelings and the right words couldn't connect. Maybe it was for the best.

Haruki Murakami

#17. I will fly to those royal birds,

Hans Christian Andersen

#18. Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.

Gerard Brennan

#19. Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

James Altucher