"Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens."

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Claudia Gray

#Irony Quotes #Said Quotes #Contrast Quotes

“For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.”
“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”
“I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.”
“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin
“As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.”
“Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'”
“It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?”
“Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.”

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