Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 10, 1867 - April 24, 1936

Topics

ManFactsLordWouldKnewHe

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Jerry Spinelli

LifeMemoriesImaginationIdeasDown

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

FamilyMotherSingleUpI Was Raised

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Melissa George

TheatreFilmGetRoleTooEverytime

I'm curious about the mix of the effortless bohemian thing with the very modern.

Matthew Williamson

CuriousModernBohemianEffortless

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Silvan Shalom

ColleaguesThinkYouCountryAskUs

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

Jon Jones

FightingTryRespectfulFighters

You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

Cindy Wilson

ArtYourselfBudgetYouGoWant

I love a bit of arugula tossed in olive oil and pepper over it to just have something nice and fresh and green.

Antoni Porowski

LoveGreenNiceOilOverFresh

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Phil Klay

CourageExperiencePoliticsWarYou

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

Sylvester McCoy

CareerNeverNextWhateverPlanned

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

Pope Benedict XVI

TrustExperiencePeopleGenerosity

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

Sharon Salzberg

FutureSpaceMindForwardProcess

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