Martin McGuinness Quotes

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

Martin McGuinness

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Know

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sadness

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Record
  • Dialogue
  • CD

• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Take
  • Wave
  • Mother`s

• Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • May
  • Dark

• Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

  

  Wallace Thurman
  • Religion
  • Color
  • Prejudice

• I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Blood
  • Photos

• I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Political
  • Relationship