Seamus Heaney Quotes
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Quotes to Explore
-
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
-
I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
-
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
-
I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.
-
My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.
-
We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
-
We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.
-
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.
-
If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.
-
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
-
Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.
-
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
-
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
-
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.
-
I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
-
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
-
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
