John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
-
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
-
I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
-
For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
-
I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
-
The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
-
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
-
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
-
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
-
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-
Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
-
Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
-
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
-
When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
-
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
-
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
-
I never thought anything like that would have gone on.
-
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
-
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
-
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
-
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
-
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
