Buberl Quotes & Sayings

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. — Thomas Jefferson

A modern soldier returning from combat - or a survivor of Sarajevo - goes from the kind of close-knit group that humans evolved for, back into a society where most people work outside the home, children are educated by strangers, families are isolated from wider communities, and personal gain almost completely eclipses collective good. — Sebastian Junger

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them. — Bahman Ghobadi

God Save me from boys — Chloe Neill

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position. — Shelley Moore Capito

The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out. — Albert J. Nock

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore. — Kiran Desai

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done. — Lottie Moon

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities. — Amy Smart