Tir'd Quotes

#1. When after many battles past,
Both tir'd with blows,
make peace at last,
What is it, after all, the people get?
Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

Francis Daniels Moore

#2. Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

Homer

#3. Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

William Davenant

#4. Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Really? It's no wonder you nearly froze to death the way you spend all your energy moving your mouth.
Loghain Mac Tir

David Gaider

#6. Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Dean Inge

#7. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

Anne Bishop

#8. Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

Jeb Bush

#9. The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

Amanda Hocking

#10. I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

Joseph Brodsky

#11. Well, it's no wonder you nearly managed to freeze to death the way you spend all your energy moving your mouth.

David Gaider

#12. As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

Majora Carter

#13. Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Barack Obama

#14. Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

Krishna Das

#15. My queen," he breathed, one hand reaching up to frame my cheek, making my stomach jump and twirl. "I belong to you. No matter what Mab says, no matter how long I've been in Tir Na Nog, my life is yours. Nothing will ever make me leave your side.

Julie Kagawa

#16. All of the tir e e'lintes are full of potential, always moving, always restless, always looking for possibilities to reach out and be somewhere else, be something else. This tree, that tree, that forest, that forest. But more than anything, we love the stars.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Keith Green

#18. I love you, Evelyn." Leaning in, he grazes my earlobe with his mouth. "For longer than you might have known."
"Likewise."
He chuckles against my cheek. "That's all you have to say? Likewise?"
"Just shut up and kiss me."
"I was getting there.

Renee Ericson

#19. Ladies and Felines," he stated grandly, grasping the doorknob, "Welcome to Tir Na Nog. Land of endless winter and shitloads of snow.

Julie Kagawa

#20. Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Tim Johnson

#21. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#22. Really?" i stared at him, surprised. "You're going to Tir Na Nog? Why?"
"I told you before, I am looking for someone."
"Who?"
"You ask a wearying amount of questions, human."
-Grimalkin

Julie Kagawa

#23. a crown, if it hurts us is not worth wearing

Pearl Bailey

#24. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

Alexandra Ripley