Top 42 Orna Quotes
#1. How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?
Orna Ross
#2. They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.
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#3. If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.
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#4. You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.
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#5. We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.
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#6. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.
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#8. All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.
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#9. How you do money is how you do life.
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#10. In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.
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#11. You know, Mercy, it is really very simple." He took my hand. "He has no power, hon. Not unless you hand yours over.
Orna Ross
#12. Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.
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#13. When looked at from the woman's side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.
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#14. We parked in the lot by the lake and as we emerged from the car, the mountains seemed to have closed in around us and the quiet was palpable, inescapable, underlined by the distant, humming rush of Poulnapass Waterfall.
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#15. Whatever happened to 'mother knows best'?
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#16. The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and how a mature economy can only achieve growth by making us feel abject, hungry and isolated from ourselves and each other. Making us hate ourselves from the inside out ensures we will overspend, over-consume and over-indulge ...
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#17. Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom.
Orna Ross
#18. Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.
Orna Ross
#19. Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life.
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#20. He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall.
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#21. Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.
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#22. A mother's place is in the wrong.
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#23. You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.
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#24. Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne
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#26. It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace.
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#27. When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple.
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#28. You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.
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#29. I need more. Thinking he meant water, I reached for the jug.
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#30. Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross
#31. I need a pill." "What about the pump?" "No, a pill." I took the container, a new one, nearly full, from its place on the window, shook one pill
Orna Ross
#32. Reached up to push the button that released liquid morphine into his veins.
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#33. It takes a great reader to make a great book.
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#34. When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.
Orna Ross
#35. He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.
Orna Ross
#36. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.
Darren Shan
#37. A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician.
Orna Ross
#38. On Christmas Eve morning, hours before Zach left or Star arrived, my father asked me to kill him. I'd spent some of that night in a chair at the end of his bed. At one point, he woke and started to panic, then remembering,
Orna Ross
#39. It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.
Orna Ross
#40. The eyes of the creative spirit can see in all directions.
Orna Ross
#41. All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her? WB Yeats
Orna Ross
#42. One good thing about it is how it wises you up early to what most men want from a woman.
Orna Ross
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