Meany Quotes

#1. IF WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER FOUR SECONDS, WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER THREE," he said. "IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE MORE FAITH." "It takes more practice," I told him irritably. "FAITH TAKES PRACTICE," said Owen Meany.

John Irving

#2. If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

Sarah Dessen

#3. IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

John Irving

#4. JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU," says Owen Meany

John Irving

#5. Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then

John Irving

#6. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

John Irving

#7. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving

#8. This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

John Irving

#9. Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water ... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

John Irving

#10. Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer."
"If you don't believe in Easter," Owen Meany said. "Don't kid yourself - Don't call yourself a Christian.

John Irving

#11. THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

John Irving

#12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU,'" he'd said over my mother's grave; and so I say that one for him - I know it was one of his favorites. I am always saying prayers for Owen Meany. And

John Irving

#14. GUYS, Owen Meany said. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand U.S. Marines and fifty jet fighters were being

John Irving

#15. After all: I had been practicing lifting up Owen Meany - forever. The

John Irving

#16. Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

George Meany

#17. Here was my lesson in the reach of veterinary medicine, in how an animal doctor may not be the one standing up when disaster strikes and someone shouts, 'Is there a doctor in the house?' but occasionally, if he or she is lucky, a vet can help heal a sick loved one.

Nick Trout

#18. The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

#19. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

Kirk Douglas

#20. We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

George Meany

#21. All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Charles Hodge

#22. You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#23. You are someone worth loving

Anne Rice

#24. It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

George Meany

#25. Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

George Meany

#26. The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

George Meany

#27. I think I'm very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this new phase of my career, is extremely significant.

Zayn Malik

#28. The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

George Meany

#29. Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

George Meany

#30. Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

George Meany