"It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?"

-- Kevin Barry

#Giving Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.”

Source : James E. Grunig (2013). “Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management”, p.9, Routledge
“Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.”
“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.”
“A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.”
“Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.”
“There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.”
“I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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