Christopher Brennan > Christopher's Quotes

“Allá, en el Congo, conviviendo con la injusticia y la violencia, había descubierto la gran mentira que era el colonialismo y había empezado a sentirse un 'irlandés', es decir, ciudadano de un país ocupado y explotado por un Imperio que había desngrado y desalmado a Irlanda”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“You cannot do more if you do not do better. Move on.”
― Raven Moore

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara