Irina Dunn quotes

Irina Dunn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Women need men likeÂ fish need bicycles,”
-- Irina Dunn

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“Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
-- Irina Dunn

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“Women need men like fish need bicycles.”
-- Irina Dunn

#Men Quotes #Needs Quotes #Fishes Quotes

“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”
“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”
“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”
“You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.”
“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.”

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