Top 100 Quotes About Guinness
#1. Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.
Os Guinness
#3. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.
Rashers Tierney
#5. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.
Os Guinness
#6. We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
Os Guinness
#7. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Os Guinness
#8. I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.
Jasmine Guinness
#9. I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
Mark Hamill
#10. I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.
Jasmine Guinness
#11. Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I've never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.
Harper Gray.
Trish Doller
#12. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
Daphne Guinness
#13. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
#14. I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
Daphne Guinness
#15. I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.
Jasmine Guinness
#16. It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
Jasmine Guinness
#17. Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.
Os Guinness
#18. Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.
Cherie Priest
#19. We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.
Os Guinness
#20. At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
Graham Greene
#21. I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
Jasmine Guinness
#22. When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.
Daphne Guinness
#23. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
Alec Guinness
#24. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Os Guinness
#25. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,
Daphne Guinness
#26. Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
Rita Ora
#27. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!
Rashers Tierney
#28. As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
Os Guinness
#29. Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
Os Guinness
#30. There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.
Os Guinness
#31. There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.
Os Guinness
#32. I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.
Daphne Guinness
#33. I love to look at women with good bones and good bodies in good clothes.
Gloria Guinness
#34. Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything
Lulu Guinness
#35. A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
Os Guinness
#36. I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
Daphne Guinness
#37. Perhaps I should call the Guinness Book people. I wondered what the world record was for not being sure whether you committed a string of murders?
Jeff Lindsay
#38. One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
Os Guinness
#40. St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.
Conan O'Brien
#41. We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
Os Guinness
#42. Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.
Os Guinness
#43. I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.
Lewis Black
#44. My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
Jasmine Guinness
#45. When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.
Os Guinness
#46. Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
Os Guinness
#47. Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.
Os Guinness
#48. Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.
Jasmine Guinness
#49. The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
Jack White
#50. God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
Os Guinness
#51. Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'
Daphne Guinness
#52. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Henry Grattan Guinness
#53. If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.
Os Guinness
#54. I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.
Daphne Guinness
#55. For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill ... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
Martin Bashir
#56. Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
Os Guinness
#57. We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.
Jasmine Guinness
#58. I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.
Daphne Guinness
#59. What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.
Saoirse Ronan
#61. I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?
Gloria Guinness
#62. Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting
it has been found wanting, and not tried.
Os Guinness
#63. Deal. Mrs. B belongs in the Guinness Book of World Records on many counts. Signing a non-compete at 99 merely adds one more.
Warren Buffett
#64. Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
Daphne Guinness
#65. Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
Os Guinness
#66. There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
Alec Guinness
#67. In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
Os Guinness
#68. I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
Jasmine Guinness
#69. In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#70. We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.
Daphne Guinness
#71. Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
Alec Guinness
#72. In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.
Os Guinness
#73. One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good.
Os Guinness
#74. Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes.
Holly Madison
#75. Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
Alec Guinness
#76. I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
Robbie Williams
#77. I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
Daphne Guinness
#78. I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
Daphne Guinness
#79. The older I get
the quicker Christmas comes,
but if I had to give up the heavenly
taste of Guinness dark, I couldn't
live another goddamn day. Darling,
you can chisel that into my headstone.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#80. Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
Os Guinness
#81. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness
#82. I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'
Daphne Guinness
#83. Leaving work with a bag full of Guinness and thank-you notes is better than getting paid.
Clifton Kenny
#84. I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.
Daphne Guinness
#86. It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#87. One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
Bob Brown
#88. At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
Os Guinness
#89. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
Alec Guinness
#90. Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
Daphne Guinness
#91. The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, I post, therefore I am.
Os Guinness
#92. I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
Jasmine Guinness
#93. There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
Daphne Guinness
#94. People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
Jasmine Guinness
#95. I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
Jasmine Guinness
#96. I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
Alec Guinness
#97. There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.
Daphne Guinness
#98. I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
Daphne Guinness
#99. Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.
Jasmine Guinness
#100. Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Daphne Guinness
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