Katharine Tynan Quotes

#1. On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Mindy Kaling

#2. I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

Katharine Tynan

#3. The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

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#4. Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

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#5. To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

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#6. One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Jet Li

#7. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn't look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I'd still be in Savannah.

Clarence Thomas

#8. There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Ben Hecht

#9. Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie

Kresley Cole

#10. Love is only found in books

Ellen Hopkins

#11. Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...

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#12. I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

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#13. Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E.W. Howe

#14. O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

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#15. Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

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#16. Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

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#17. We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in a stinking, steaming swamp.

Mark Leibovich

#19. The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

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#20. It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

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#21. January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

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#22. The kind need kindness most of all.

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#23. Religion dies hard in the Irish.

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#24. It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

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#25. There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

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#26. In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Mason Cooley

#27. She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever.

Danielle Steel

#28. The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Katharine Tynan