Quotes About The Troubles In Ireland

#1. For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

Frank Delaney

#2. If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.

Adrian McKinty

#3. But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock's robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Samuel Butler

#5. It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

Sarah Dessen

#6. I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing.

Adrian McKinty

#7. I'm not a tacky person, I think.

Claire Denis

#8. Something good comes out of every crisis.

Dave Pelzer

#9. Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Alyssa Milano

#10. million, and 30 percent of the

Bill Dedman

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"But not as hot as you, baby."
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Samantha Towle

#12. Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

Libba Bray

#13. E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).

Narendra Modi

#14. Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

Corrie Ten Boom

#15. America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Will Rogers

#16. Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

Michael Robotham

#17. Caleb's hands pulled my face up and he still looked like that boy that would move mountains and break jaws for me.

Shelly Crane

#18. Each grape she pulled off grew back again on the cluster. In the dream it was evident that the girl had spent many years at that infinite window trying to finish the cluster, and was in no hurry to so because she knew that in the last grape lay death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

James Nesbitt

#20. Hung in the scales
with beauty and atrocity:
with the Dying Gaul
too strictly compassed
on his shield
with the actual weight
of each hooded victim,
slashed and dumped.

Seamus Heaney

#21. Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Jonathan Powell