Maeve Binchy Quotes

I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

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Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

John Nelson Darby

EvilChristianSinDutyWillCommit

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Robert Greenblatt

DreamRunOldSystemStudioMovie

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

Robert Dallek

SafetyPoliticalDignityWillNation

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

Tom Douglas

EveryoneBeenTaughtEverWorked

People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.

Mary Roach

HopeAppreciationPeopleAppreciate

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

Mike Tice

GreatFootballTeethLuckyCoach

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

Jazz Jennings

ChangeMyselfPersonalityI AmMe

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

Debbie Reynolds

FamilyHomeParentsLovedHouse

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

Wolfgang Schauble

WorkBestFinanceMeEndLong

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

William Inge

LifeHabitPerformanceConnection

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

William Hague

MarriagePeopleIndependenceCountry

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Pim Fortuyn

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