Brendan Behan Quotes

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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• I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Business
  • Know

• We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Travel

• I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Want
  • House
  • You

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Never
  • Person
  • Nothing

• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Heart
  • She
  • Character

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Money
  • Winning

• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Man
  • Marriage

• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Day

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Know

• People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.

  

  Oprah Winfrey

• More power to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty if they can get someone’s attention.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Attention

• Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Bad

• Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

  

  Herodotus
  • God
  • Man
  • Impossible

• Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Believe
  • Ethics

• Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Justice
  • Safety
  • Injustice

• Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Trying
  • Style

• A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

  

  Brendan Behan