 | United States. Congress - Presidents - 1964 - 936 pages
...senselessness, the mean¡nglessness. • • • We all of us know down here that politics is a tough game. And I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world и going to break your heart eventually. I guess we thought we had a little more time. * * * So did... | |
 | Deborah Esch - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 204 pages
...interrogative that punctuates the Knots syntax at frequent intervals— elicits an elaboration on Mack's part: "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if...don't know that the world is going to break your heart some day." Greg's reply, "If you say so," anticipates the "Whatever you say" he later directs to Laura's... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 1128 pages
...the next four days. In Washington Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Assistant Secretary of Labor, said, "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if...I guess that we thought we had a little more time. . . . Mary McGrory said to me that we'll never laugh again. And I said, 'Heavens, Mary. We'll laugh... | |
 | Thomas Maier - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 748 pages
...particularly those who recognized Kennedy's fatalism in their own outlook. "I don't think there's any pomt in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually," said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kennedys assistant secretary of labor, who had his own keen eye for the... | |
 | Maureen Dowd - Political Science - 2005 - 564 pages
...journalism and ridding the world of jackboots. And as Pat Moynihan said when he learned JFK was dead: "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if...the world is going to break your heart eventually." 5,4 November 6, 2003 Death Be Not Loud Who can blame poor President Bush? Look at his terrible dilemma.... | |
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I don't think there's any point in being Irish, if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. 