Oflaherty Irish Music Retreat Quotes

#1. So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

Alessandro Baricco

#3. If you're doing it right, love makes you more of who you are, not less,

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

Arthur Levitt

#5. The world will be saved by one or two people.

Andre Gide

#6. Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

E. O. Wilson

#7. My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Branch Rickey

#9. Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin' me lawn and killin' what Brits come around.

Kevin Hearne

#10. I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T'excel the golden age.

William Shakespeare

#11. One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. When I Am Within, I Am Never Without.

Trilby D. Johnson

#13. There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

#14. Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.

Stephen King

#15. From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.

Sharon Salzberg