Peadar O'donnell Quotes

#1. She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.

Peadar O'Guilin

#2. They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.

Peadar O'Guilin

#3. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Geri Halliwell

#4. Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves.

Peadar O'Guilin

#6. The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings.

Peadar O'Guilin

#7. When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

#8. Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. She says, "I'm going to live. And nobody's going to stop me." She believes every word of it.

Peadar O'Guilin

#11. His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.

Peadar O'Guilin

#12. Lovers who fell in love being friends who always wanted more.

J. Daniels

#13. Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.

Jason Mitchell

#14. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Dorothea Brande

#15. I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

Peadar O'Guilin

#16. There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.

Peadar O'Guilin

#17. Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.

Peadar O'Guilin

#18. She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.

Peadar O'Guilin

#19. The rear door was black, the driver's side door was red, and the hood was sunshine-yellow. If Henry Ford and Picasso had gone out on a bender, that car was what the hangover would have looked like.

Kathleen O'Reilly

#20. And I think, Wow, I did it. I actually managed to die of a stroke at age 17.

Tahereh Mafi

#21. The redhead shrugs. She doesn't care. And neither should Nessa. Not if she wants to live.

Peadar O'Guilin