Burador Quotes & Sayings

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. — Nathaniel Branden

A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already.
"It's sure to be twelve," Shukhov announced. "The sun's over the top already."
"If it is," the captain retorted, "it's one o'clock, not twelve."
"How do you make that out?" Shukhov asked in surprise. "The old folk say the sun is highest at dinnertime."
"Maybe it was in their day!" the captain snapped back. "Since then it's been decreed that the sun is highest at one o'clock."
"Who decreed that?"
"The Soviet government."
The captain took off with the handbarrow, but Shukhov wasn't going to argue anyway. As if the sun would obey their decrees! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it. — Reza Aslan

One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted. — E. M. Forster

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. — Clifford Odets

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. — Ralph Ellison

We often despise what is most useful to us. — Aesop

Logan licked a glob of strawberry jelly from her lower lip and smiled up
at Odin. Only one comment seemed to perfectly fit her current situation. "I
see dead people."
He leaned forward, hands on his hips. "Me, too. It's the only explanation
for what's standing in front of me. Unless some high school kids broke into
the anatomy closet and stole the classroom skeleton, stretched some cadaver
skin over that bitch then cast an ancient ritual to animate it. — Jennifer Turner

Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world. — Kevin Hart

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?
- A very lost Marcus Brody — Rob MacGregor

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh

You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true. — Duffy Daugherty

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. — Adyashanti

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings. — Maya Angelou