Troubles In Northern Ireland Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.

Pandora Gray

#3. 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

#4. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

#5. The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.

Steven Forrest

#6. 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

#7. Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Frank Zappa

#8. 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

#9. The wren goes to't

Emily St. John Mandel

#10. I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Walter Kirn

#11. What you praise you increase.

Catherine Ponder

#12. Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Edith Hamilton

#13. What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Laura Hillenbrand

#14. I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

Coolio

#15. I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

Bobby Fischer