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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.


Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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P. J. O'ROURKE There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.
THOMAS ADCOCK Love will cost you dearly.
And it will break your heart.
But in the end, it will save the ...
SARAH THEBARGE i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. The one, who doesn’t break your heart, will break your balls.
M.F. MOONZAJER If people do not look after their hearts they will soon see a flag of submission and the fight will ...
GARY F EVANS... It kills me to know that to save your soul, i must break your heart.
H WEISS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
AARON CIECHANOVER Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
CIARA They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my he...
BOBBY SANDS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or...
TONY LA RUSSA If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks r...
ANDREW HARVEY Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part.
IRISH BLESSINGS They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU Patrick Pearse - who set the events of 1916 in motion when he read the Proclamation of the Irish Rep...
TERRY GLAVIN The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.
JENNIFER E. SMITH To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. B...
CATHERINE M. WILSONSON Always listen to the warnings from your heart.
TERESA COLLINS I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
MARY OLIVER In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
LINDSEY VONN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
BILLY GRAHAM It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.
MARY ANNE YARDE It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Don't let any one show you the ropes to the world because usually it will be in the shape of a noose...
ANDONI GARCIA PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS He will rattle your cage and then break your heart.
JAMESON CURRIER Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN True love will break you, it devotes to break your beat up, broken heart awaiting to repair and alig...
JOHN MAIORANA (OOHGIOVANNI) All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You...
KEKE PALMER Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY Follow your heart, includes your responsibilities in everyday life; else heart will have only regret...
SANDHYA JANE At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the ra...
TAYLOR DYE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to ...
NEIL GAIMAN To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan.
ED KOCH May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
MOTHER TERESA

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PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th...
PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o...
PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ...
PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but...
PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am...
PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
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