There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness. This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.Try to be one of us, repeated Davin. In your heart you are an Irishman but your pride is too powerful.My ancestors threw off their language and took another, Stephen said. They allowed a handful of foreigners to subject them. Do you fancy that I am going to pay in my own life and person debts they made? What for?For our freedom, said Davin.No honourable and sincere man, said Stephen, has given up to you his life and his youth and his affections from the days of Wolfe Tone to those of Parnell, but you sold him to the enemy or failed him in need or reviled him and left him for another. And you invite me to be one of you. I'd see you damned first.They died for their ideals, Stevie, said Davin. Our day will come yet, believe me.Stephen, following his own thought, was silent for an instant...When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets ... Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

I love college life.

Lil' Romeo

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

William Shakespeare

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

LaoTzu

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a fool honesty is.

William Shakespeare

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

George Orwell

Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Blaise Pascal

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Kin Hubbard