#iri

I'm just a loud Irish guy. ↗

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say. ↗

— Hope Solo

#free-spirited #individuality #leadership #outspoken #resiliency

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ↗

— William Odom

#always #consideration #few #firing #go

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#before #bring #gave #generation #house

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#i #once #retire #retiring

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. ↗