Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Fate
  • Go

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Contradict

• We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Years
  • Plan
  • Budget

• 'There is no God,' the wicked saith,'And truly it’s a blessing,For what He might have done with usIt’s better only guessing.'

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Done

• I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Imagination

• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People

• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Important

• One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Relationship

• But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

  

  James Carville

• There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so much richness to it. And not that they won't do that for their next script, but there is something about their first experience and the time that it's been floating in their head.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

  

  Bryan Q. Miller
  • Food
  • Quality

• I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Country
  • Why
  • America

• Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

  

  Martin Chalfie

• I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

  

  Lynn Davies

• If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Up
  • Time

• Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Evil
  • Shadow
  • Opposed

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • May
  • Help
  • Helping

• How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach