Sean O'Faolain Quotes
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
Quotes to Explore
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
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We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.
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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.
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I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.
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It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.
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Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
