Quotes About Ireland 1916

#1. More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

Adolf Hitler

#2. Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Hope Mirrlees

#3. A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.

S.M. Sigerson

#4. Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Alicia Keys

#5. The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

David Platt

#6. A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.

Irene Nemirovsky

#8. Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#9. He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Izaak Walton

#10. Dear God If You Love Me Don't You Think I Should Feel That ?

Abhijeet Singh

#11. He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. I am a war man in the day of war, but I am a peace man in the day of peace.

Michael Collins

#13. The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Saoirse Ronan

#14. it's like the British in Ireland in 1916' , says Oisir O'Dowd. 'The repeated the ageless macho mantra, "Force is the only thing these natives understand," so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.

David Mitchell

#15. Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.

Michael Collins

#16. The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

#17. I loved men and was going mad with suppressed desire. It pushed me into a series of affairs with dubious jazz musicians. Sex was not what I imagined. It was tension, scent and prosaic misalliance. It was sweet and sad revelation, and all expectation dashed.

James Ellroy

#18. Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.

Steve Maraboli

#19. Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.

Tim Pat Coogan