Baguio Burnham Quotes & Sayings

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers. — Christine Quinn

Handel, to him I bow the knee. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart. — Marty Rubin

You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot. — Richard M. Nixon

Americans are pushy, obnoxious, neurotic, crass - anything and everything - the full catastrophe as our friend Zorba might say. Canadians are none of that. The way you might fear a cow sitting down in the middle of the street during rush hour, that's how I fear Canadians. To Canadians, everyone is equal. Joni Mitchell is interchangeable with a secretary at open-mic night. Frank Gehry is no greater than a hack pumping out McMansions on AutoCAD. John Candy is no funnier than Uncle Lou when he gets a couple of beers in him. No wonder the only Canadians anyone's ever heard of are the ones who have gotten the hell out. Anyone with talent who stayed would be flattened under an avalanche of equality. The thing Canadians don't understand is that some people are extraordinary and should be treated as such. — Maria Semple

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love. — George Herbert

Recklessness didn't work out for me in the end."
- Sand dan Glokta — Joe Abercrombie

revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey — Amanda Lovelace

I'm twenty-seven and as of writing this, I haven't had sex in two years, six months, three days, and two and a half hours. It's a situation that I wish upon no one. — Olive B. Persimmon

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too. — Charles Baxter

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism. — Henry Mintzberg

I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows ... Or it would be fine to confirm the odd beliefs about war: it's horrible, but it's a crucible of men and events and, in the end, it makes more of a man out of you.
But, still, none of these notions seems right. Men are killed, dead human beings are heavy and awkward to carry, things smell different in Vietnam, soldiers are afraid and often brave, drill sergeants are boors, some men think the war is proper and just and others don't and most don't care. Is that the stuff for a morality lesson, even for a theme?
Do dreams offer lessons? Do nightmares have themes, do we awaken and analyze them and live our lives and advise others as a result? Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories. — Tim O'Brien