#non

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#blood #born #does #duty #exist

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#been #book #drift #easy #forced

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#best #best way #change #climate #climate change

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#arab #camps #citizenship #done #integrated

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#because #buy #carry #films #go

It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sure if I sat and thought about it, but none that I could think of offhand. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#could #fun #fun making #had #i

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? ↗

— Bette Midler

#come #how #many #natural #phenomenon

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. ↗

— John Milton

#good #good men #heartily #licence #love

Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. ↗

— Alan Minter

#boxing #deaths #injuries #none #serious