Quotes by irish authors

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind. Rory McIlroy

Great Mind Gym Also Going Body Your Your Body

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett

Silence You Must Never Know Am Go Where

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. Spike Milligan

Just Afraid Want Dying Happens

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats

Soul Stronger Before Energy Every Trial Moral Spirit Weathered Temptation New Makes Than Represents Endured Fund Conquering Right

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. Bobby Sands

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. Bobby Sands

Broken Nothing Spirit Imperial Arsenal Irishman Want Break Who Whole

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. Bobby Sands

Day Freedom Me Heart People Will Moon See Rising Dawn Because Ireland Irish Irish People Break Then Show Desire

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis

Humble People Problem Some Real Pious Real Problem Suffer Why Believing

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it. Conor McGregor

Me Challenges Competition Challenge Will Enjoy Go Front Appeals Conquer

I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion. Conor McGregor

Time Negative Pressure Calm Drama Negative Way Way No Pressure Emotion Excitement Feel Like Diamonds Same Same Time Want Creates

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it. Domhnall Gleeson

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Edmund Burke

Beer Pressure Men Wine Aid Cares Our Consolation Moral Physical Some Mortal Countries Sorrows Opium Condition Times Brandy Tobacco

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke

Mind First Emotion Simplest Discover Curiosity Human Which Human Mind

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Edmund Burke

Food Mind Facts Body

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Edmund Burke

Soil Weed Every Grows Slavery

You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw

You Coward Hero Without Being Cannot

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. George Bernard Shaw

Better Everybody Guesses Secrets Than Kept

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw

Dreams Youth Wonderful Crime Wonderful Thing Children Waste Thing