Burai Quotes & Sayings

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort. — Gail Devers

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! — Malcolm X

Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts. — Frederick Lenz

And it wasn't just the subjugation of human beings that distressed her but the level of daily, almost casual brutality. Even for routine punishments there were blood-stained stakes, lead-tipped whips. She's always rather admired the Romans, for their literacy, their order, their engineering, their respect for the law. Now, she was finding, she'd never fully imagined this side of their civilisation. — Stephen Baxter

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing. — Ellen DeGeneres

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas. — Charlie Rose

You can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistance. — John Green

It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart. — Ruth Reichl

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. — Vladimir Putin

You can ridicule me. You can mock me. You can even make fun of me, but the one thing that you will never be able to do, is stop me." Wade Belknap Jr. — Wade Belknap Jr

There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being. — Marilynne Robinson

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours. — Gary North