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A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature. ~ S.M. Sigerson
Michael Collins quotes by S.M. Sigerson
I am also planning to leave a lot of things undone. Part of life's mystery depends on future possibilities, and mystery is an elusive quality which evaporates when sampled frequently, to be followed by boredom. For example, catching various types of fish is on my list of good things to do, but I would be reluctant to rush into it, even if i had the time. I want no part of destroying fishing as a mysterious sport. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
The History of Ireland in two words: Ah well.

The Invasion by the Vikings: Ah well.

The Invasion by the Normans. The Flight of the Earls, Mr Oliver Cromwell. Daniel O'Connell, Robert Emmett, The Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, Easter Rising, Michael Collins, Éamon De Valera, Éamon De Valera again (Dear Germany, so sorry to learn of the death of your Mr Hitler), Éamon De Valera again, the Troubles, the Tribunals, the Fianna Fáil Party, The Church, the Banks, the eight hundred years of rain: Ah well.

In the Aeneid Virgil tells it as Sunt lacrimae rerum, which in Robert Fitzgerald's translation means 'They weep for how the world goes', which is more eloquent than Ah well but means the same thing. ~ Niall Williams
Michael Collins quotes by Niall Williams
I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.' ~ Maggie Grace
Michael Collins quotes by Maggie Grace
I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside. ~ Conan O'Brien
Michael Collins quotes by Conan O'Brien
After these readings I confirmed my suspicions and feelings on that day outside Ennis courthouse that not only was Eamonn De Valera complicit in the assassination of Michael Collins, but he was also responsible for ensuring that the partition of Ireland stayed in place and that Ireland was always secretly under the control of British political interest. ~ A. Antares
Michael Collins quotes by A. Antares
[These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
We are off! And do we know it, not just because the world is yelling "Lift-off" in our ears, but because the seats of our pants tell us so! Trust your instruments, not your body, the modern pilot is always told, but this beast is best felt. Shake, rattle and roll! ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
I am a war man in the day of war, but I am a peace man in the day of peace. ~ Michael Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Collins
I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence. ~ Michael Dumontier
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Dumontier
My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees. ~ Michael Mina
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Mina
But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. ~ Michael Pollan
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Pollan
If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. ~ Michael Schumacher
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Schumacher
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions. ~ Michael Josephson
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Josephson
That's not the reason I didn't tell you," Royce snapped.
"You just said it was!"
"I know I did!"
"So you're lying to me again?"
"Call me a liar one more time - "
"And what? What? You going to fight me?" "It's dark in here. ~ Michael J. Sullivan
Michael Collins quotes by Michael J. Sullivan
When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid? ~ Michael Scherer
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Scherer
I'm a Michael Bay fanatic. ~ John Boyega
Michael Collins quotes by John Boyega
I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn't have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself. ~ Michael Barbarulo
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Barbarulo
do not let this energy build up inside you, but instead allow each moment of the day to pass through you ~ Michael A. Singer
Michael Collins quotes by Michael A. Singer
Danny and Vinny both thought the problem in this case was Eisman's affinity for Bear Stearns. The most hated firm on Wall Street, famous mainly for its total indifference to the good opinion of its competitors, Eisman identified with the place! ~ Michael Lewis
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Lewis
Graham licked his lips. Merry fucking Christmas to me. How could he say no? He'd dreamt of what Michael might look like under those jeans for almost as long as he'd known him. His imagination wasn't nearly as good as he thought it was. ~ Em Woods
Michael Collins quotes by Em Woods
The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything. ~ Michael Ondaatje
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Ondaatje
I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication. ~ Michael Moorcock
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Moorcock
It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages! ~ Michael R. Burch
Michael Collins quotes by Michael R. Burch
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Michael Collins quotes by Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I don't think Marie killed your father but, if she did, she did it to protect you. Maybe even murder can be a beautiful act. ~ Michael Bowe
Michael Collins quotes by Michael  Bowe
Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292) ~ Michael Robotham
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Robotham
The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations. ~ Michael Josephson
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Josephson
Our friend Chewy doesn't speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco. ~ Michael Diack
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Diack
This kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But ~ Michael Connelly
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Connelly
The Truth is simple but the Way of Man is hard. First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes. Thou art God. Know that and the Way is opened. I love you. Thou art God.
-Valentine Michael Smith ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Michael Collins quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership? ~ Michael Foot
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Foot
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it. ~ Francis Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Francis Collins
You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you. ~ Billy Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Billy Collins
[Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions. ~ Pier Luigi Luisi
Michael Collins quotes by Pier Luigi Luisi
There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far. ~ Michael Lee West
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Lee West
In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone? ~ Michael Hyatt
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Hyatt
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work. ~ Michael Hastings
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Hastings
There was a vividly clear class distinction between tech guys and finance guys. The finance guys saw the tech guys as faceless help and were unable to think of them as anything else. ~ Michael Lewis
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Lewis
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills. ~ Michael Dirda
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Dirda
I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude ... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer. ~ Utkarsh Ambudkar
Michael Collins quotes by Utkarsh Ambudkar
If I'm doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn't be the same show that I'd do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday - it's a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people. ~ Michael Che
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Che
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth. ~ Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. ~ Michael Keaton
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Keaton
Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, 'Remember your promise. ~ Michael Robotham
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Robotham
I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things. ~ Michael Corbat
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Corbat
When Jung first advanced this idea, most physicists did not take it seriously (although one eminent physicist of the time, Wolfgang Pauli, felt it was important enough to coauthor a book with Jung on the subject entitled The Interpretation and Nature of the Psyche). But now that the existence of nonlocal connections has been established, some physicists are giving Jung's idea another look. * Physicist Paul Davies states, "These non-local quantum effects are indeed a form of synchronicity in the sense that they establish a connection - more precisely a correlation - between events for which any form of causal linkage is forbidden. ~ Michael Talbot
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Talbot
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. ~ Michael Stipe
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Stipe
The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day. ~ Michael Shnayerson
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Shnayerson
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. ~ Michael Moore
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Moore
The crowd were on Fathers side most of them anyways. Everyone loves a loser I thought and there was tears coming in my eyes and I couldn't stop them neither. ~ Michael Morpurgo
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Morpurgo
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward. ~ Michael Caine
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Caine
Finally, Sacred Tradition is also necessary because some truths of the faith are expressed in a completely definite form in Scripture, while others are not entirely clear and precise and therefore demand confirmation by the Sacred Apostolic Tradition. ~ Michael Pomazansky
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Pomazansky
To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment. ~ Suzanne Collins
Michael Collins quotes by Suzanne Collins
The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world. ~ Michael Jackson
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Jackson
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. ~ Michael Badnarik
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Badnarik
The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer. ~ Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Collins quotes by Michael Mandelbaum
Not maybe. Definitely! We have an expression back home in Haiti, which says something like 'a man who is thinking with his penis.' That is what you are Michael. That doesn't mean that you are addicted to sex or pornography. You are not a pervert of any kind. Contrary! You are just too sensitive with women. You fall in love at the blink of an eye and all your decisions are based on your passions towards a particular woman. Your mind gets blurry because not enough blood goes to your brain. And your heart pumps all the blood back to your penis and that is why you are a man who thinks with his penis." (Ch.7) ~ Stevan V. Nikolic
Michael Collins quotes by Stevan V. Nikolic
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