John Giles Quotes

#1. When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Eamon

#2. You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Anthony Eden

#3. I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. If at first you don't concede, try, try a gun.

Brian Spellman

#6. I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

Woody Harrelson

#7. Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

Giles Smith

#8. I moved away from him, sitting back on my heels and raising my aim to his heart. "Happy anniversary, Frank."

In a flash, he had my gun away from me and I was flat on the floor with his boot against my throat. "You point a gun at me again, I will break your neck.

Nicole Castle

#9. It would have been so easy to believe every word he said and drive off with him into the moonlight like a scene from a fairy tale. But I wasn't meant for happily ever after in my past life, and it was starting to seem like this one wouldn't be any different.

Michelle Madow

#10. The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

Martin St. Louis

#11. I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#12. New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Edmund Burke

#14. Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes ... To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety.

Paul Tournier

#15. But ... " Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes."
Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to."
"You never had to," St. John concurred.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#16. Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

Alexander McCall Smith