Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Religion

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Born
  • Living
  • Cellar

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Legacy
  • Him

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • May
  • Truth
  • Fall

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Die
  • Legacy

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Think
  • Die

• I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death
  • Die
  • Enemy

• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  

  John Hancock
  • People
  • Men
  • Respect

• What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Meant
  • Writings

• I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Responsibility

• She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something.... Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody.... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one... well, the fourth one was just plain weird.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Guy
  • Weird

• Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Born