I Quotes
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“Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My ancestors were all shepherds who got married in their thirties and then stayed together for life, who had long and happy marriages, no doubt because they were already deaf. My grandparents courted for nine years before they married in 1933.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”
“Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.”
“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”
“Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.”
Source: Wise Children
“Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.”
“Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.”
“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
“Irklar erir, renkler karışır, kalan sadece insanın vicdanıdır.”
Source: Yabancı Yarim: Sessizliği Dinle, Kâinati Duyacaksın
“Irline crossed her arms over her chest and stared up at him, her curiosity quite evident. “A boon?”
“Aye, just one boon.”
“Tell me what boon it be that ye seek. I’ll no’ say aye or nay until I hear it.”
He was quite thankful that she was at least willing to listen. “Let me have just a few moments with Joie, alone, without all the women around.”
“Are ye daft?” she asked with a most serious tone.
“Aye, I fear so,” he said as he offered her a warm smile. “All I ask is fer a few moments alone with her. I’ll even keep the door open and ye can watch to make certain I do no’ do anythin’ either one of us would be ashamed of.”
Irline studied him closely for several long moments, sizing him up, looking for any hint of insincerity or deceit. Finally, she gave a curt nod of her head. “Verra well,” she said.
Graeme was so overcome with relief that he scooped her up and hugged her. “Put me down, now, Graeme MacAulay!” she said as she smacked the back of his head.
He was still smiling when he carefully set her back on her feet. “Thank ye, Irline, from the bottom of me heart.”
“Do no’ thank me yet, Graeme. If yer mum finds out, I’ll lie and tell her ye held us all at sword point.”
“’ Tis a risk I be willin’ to take,” he said.”
Source: Isle of the Blessed
“Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her and begging the wind to obliterate her voice. She wanted to live with me. She missed me. She wanted me to come back home. She wanted to run away. She was yelling all this stuff and I wanted so badly for her to shut up. She was quiet for a second and I stopped running and turned around once to look at her. She was a thimble-sized girl on the road, a speck of a living thing. Her white-blond hair flew around her head like a small fire and it was all I could see because everything else about her blended in with the countryside.
He offered you a what? she yelled.
An espresso! I yelled back. It was like yelling at a shorting wire or a burning bush.
What is it? she said.
Coffee! I yelled.
Irma, can I come and live--
I turned around again and began to run.”
Source: Irma Voth
“Irmãos, o Senhor do universo não tem necessidade de nada. Ele não pede nada a ninguém, a não ser que se confesse a Ele.”
Source: Patrística - Padres Apostólicos
“Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.”
Source: Technics and Civilization
“Iron deficiency anemia is a global pandemic!”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Iron dyshomeostasis and anaemia are common after COVID-19 infection.”
Source: COVID Supplements
“Iron hand in a velvet glove.”
“Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day.”
“Iron imbalance is a feature of COVID-19.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.”
“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me. - Zodiac Academy Book 2 Ruthless Fae”
“Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.”
“Iron Maide'nin bir röportajından;
“Run To The Hills(Tepelere Kaçın) isimli şarkıdan Amerika kıtasına gelen beyaz adamın yaptığı vahşeti anlatıyordu. Şarkı sözleri ise şu şekilde idi:
Beyaz adam denizin ötesinden geldi
Bize acı ve sefalet getirdi
Kabilelerimizi öldürdü, inancımızı öldürdü,
Hayvanlarımızı kendi gereksinimi için avladı”
Source: Şeytanın Notaları
“Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.”
“Iron Man: We have money!
Spider-Man: Thank's God!”
“Iron Mike was learning how to love.”
Source: The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.' (Prov. 27:17) In a similar way that conversation sharpens a man's countenance, conversation with men throughout history sharpens a man's mind... If this is the case, and it is, then a point should be made to seek out profitable companions in a disciplined fashion throughout your life with books.”
Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“Iron sharpens iron," I quoted the old proverb. "If she is made of fine silk and you of iron, she will smother you. Or perhaps you will shred her.”
Source: Evermore
“Iron Sisters also badass at recycling!”
Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex
“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.”
“Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.”
“Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.”
Source: Philosophical Essays
“Ironia este medicament, nu numai pentru a-i binedispune și a-i lumina pe ceilalți, ci și pentru sine, căci autoironia este un instrument puternic pentru a învinge tentația narcisismului. Narcisiștii se privesc mereu în oglindă, se machiază, se privesc iar, dar cel mai bun sfat e ca în fața unei oglinzi să râdem întotdeauna de noi înșine.”
Source: Spera. Autobiografia
“Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.”
“Ironic, is it not, that the great Divinicus Nex cowers in fear from that which should be her fated prey? A decidedly diametric circumstance."
What? It's irritating when the monster hunting you has a better vocabulary than your own. Maybe it could do my eulogy?”
Source: Demons at Deadnight
“Ironic, isn’t it?” Shawn said.
“It’s not ironic at all,” Gus said.
“Dude, it’s so like a black fly in your chardonnay.”
“How many times do I have to tell you that’s not ironic, either?”
“Rain on your wedding day?”
“‘Irony’ is the use of words to convey a meaning that’s opposite to their literal meaning,” Gus said. “That stupid song came out fourteen years ago, and we still have this exact conversation at least once a week.”
“Yeah,” Shawn said. “Ironic, isn’t it?”
Source: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read
“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite”
Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.”
Source: Always Looking Up
“Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.”
Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
“Ironic, wasn't it, that I - a girl who always wanted to make her own choices - now wished for nothing more than to surrender to fate?”
Source: Six Crimson Cranes
“Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.”
“Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.”
“Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.”
Source: Love, Stargirl
“Ironically, as a man grows and gains new freedom, he becomes aware that at each point at which he must risk himself anew, aided by his new-found freedom, new experiences for which he is unprepared then present themselves.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.”
Source: The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
“Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.”
“Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited