Alexandre Burrows Quotes & Sayings

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. — Warren Buffett

All real progress must be slow. — Swami Vivekananda

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. — Frank Deford

Writing a book is just reading one, except you get to choose the perfect ending everytime! — Jennifer Squyres

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the ... cosmos ... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. — H.P. Lovecraft

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire. — Lauren DeStefano

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. — Han Suyin

To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end. — Thomas Merton

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery. — Charles Lindbergh