quotes about Grenade

“The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.”

Source : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

Source : "Old speech haunting Harper" by Gloria Galloway, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

“That you may be beloved, be amiable.”

“The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature”

“And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.”

“I like the punch beggers and panhandlers when they ask me for change. I feel like I am doing my part to clean up the streets.”

“Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.”

“You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'”

“You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.”

“The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.”