Famous quotes containing the words ireland, quarter and/or final:
“Out of Ireland have we come,
Great hatred, little room
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mothers womb
A fanatics heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think youre tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)