Amos Burton Quotes & Sayings

I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart. — Tristan MacManus

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts. — Ibn Warraq

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path. — Alice Miller

A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper. — Jonathan Zittrain

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. — Gabriel Kolko

You are doing well if you are not weary in well doing — Saji Ijiyemi

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. — Robert Gottlieb

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole. — Abbey Clancy

A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today — Margot Bickel

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar. — Nick Offerman

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you. — Andy Stanley

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause. — Poul Anderson

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds. — Peter Sellers