Eavan Boland Quotes

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 24, 1944

Topics

PowerHistoryChildhoodPastMeNew

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

John Carreyrou

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Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

Solange Knowles

PracticeFoundationSelf-LoveYou

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Steven Levitan

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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

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The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

Simon Mainwaring

TodayPowerSocial MediaSmartWorld

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Rose George

MovingDesertFindFirstThrough

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Ron Fournier

TechnologyQuestionsUnderestimate

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'

Luke Treadaway

GirlAboutAnnaFancied

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Jonas Gahr Store

PoliticsMilitaryOutInterestGet

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

Dionne Warwick

PlayWhyListenSameOverRadio

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Christopher McQuarrie

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Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

Clint Smith

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