Quotes by irish authors

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human. Pierce Brosnan

Humiliation Poisonous Human Oh Being Being Human Pains Deepest

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith. Pierce Brosnan

God Faith Day Me Prayer You End Of The Day Back Bit Pocket Something Catholic Always End Upbringing Your Helps Jesus

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub. Samantha Mumba

Time School Down Laugh School Friends Go Off Friends Want Pub

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists. Samantha Power

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. William Butler Yeats

Dreams You Will Must Wrap Take Bag Little Round Cord

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats

Love Heart Hid Telling Beyond Pity

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats

Others Ourselves Out Poetry Make Quarrel Rhetoric

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats

Beautiful Old Men Beauty Waters Say Like Heard Old Men Away

In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats

Dreams Responsibility Begins

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken. Bobby Sands

Matter Nothing Unbroken Remaining Except Mattered Skeleton Really Used Compared

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy. Bono

Country Busy Idea Real America American Getting Just

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. Bono

You Walk Christian Africa Cannot Away

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see. Bono

Life God You Eyes Value Changed Those See Some Something Global Global Village Accept Truly Off Forever Same Just Children Place Far Then Your Even Village

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. Bram Stoker

Age Men Mysteries Guess Solve Only Part May Which

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Brendan Behan

Book Like Infantryman Article Authority Hands Quotation Speaks Rifle Speech

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. Brendan Behan

Alone Good You Bible Old Paper Bit Consolation Could Stuffing Fellow Smoke Match Get Cell Tasted Lovely Ever Thin

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan

Death Me Absence Could Said Shoot Sentenced

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' Colum McCann

Darkness Enough Says Takes Blind Optimism Very Not Interested Interested Then

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it. Conor McGregor

Blame People Wish Own Situation Think Others Out Find Seek Like Look Around Go Person Just Them Should