Eavan Boland Quotes

There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PastTemptationNationTurnWithin

I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!

Jesse McCartney

LoveSupportPeopleAppreciateQuiet

I'd rather go down with an almighty bang than play it safe.

Maxine Peake

DownPlayGoSafeBangRather

Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.

Tony Garza

LifeGovernmentPeopleEndBetter

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

Matt Bomer

UniformT-ShirtJeansStandard

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

Michael Moore

MeEagleMadScoutPollutionWho

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Douglas Leone

BusinessGreatBuildingSomeoneCEO

I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

MeLittleScaredBeingBeing Scared

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Branch Rickey

BestDayJobMeCareBetter

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

Anthony Holden

PoliticalDoneBeyondMovementGoing

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

Winifred Holtby

FutureDeathWarSafetyYouthLine

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

Peter Thiel

EducationMoneyValueCollegeYou

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.

Seth Berkley

WorkStrengthFightYouBodyBack

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