Shelagh Delaney Quotes

#1. Do you know what passion is?"
I blink, confused.
"Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that's not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.

J. Kenner

#2. It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush.

George W. Bush

#3. But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

#4. You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

Shelagh Delaney

#5. Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

Gerald Jampolsky

#6. The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

Walter Wink

#7. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?

John Burningham

#8. You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

Shelagh Delaney

#9. Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression.

Chris Reifert

#10. I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

Shelagh Delaney

#11. There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

Shelagh Delaney

#12. Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Shelagh Delaney

#13. At my age, one must ration one's excitement

Julian Fellowes

#14. Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Shelagh Delaney

#15. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#16. Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

Shelagh Delaney

#17. Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Shelagh Delaney

#18. The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Shelagh Delaney

#19. Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Anne Tyler

#20. My usual self is a very unusual self.

Shelagh Delaney

#21. [On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Shelagh Delaney

#22. Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.

Shelagh Delaney

#23. When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Troy Polamalu

#24. Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

George Carlin

#25. I believe we're headed to an Elijah/Jezebel showdown on the Earth, not just in America but all over the globe, and the main warriors will be the prophets of Baal versus the prophets of God, and there will be no middle ground.

Lou Engle

#26. I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

Shelagh Delaney

#27. A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Shelagh Delaney

#28. I'm not afraid of the darkness outside.
It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

Shelagh Delaney