"Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas."

-- Lord Edward FitzGerald

#Ideas Quotes #House Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others”

Source : "Don’t abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal, embrace it to build regional peace" by Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2017.
“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever”
“My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.”
“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”
“I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!”
“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
“I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!”

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