Burglars Afoot Quotes & Sayings

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic. — Vivienne Westwood

What literature could accomplish by way of moral education was less instruction than an expansion of our capacity for empathy: it admits us to experiences other than our own. — Laura Miller

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. — David Morse

But the presence of the young woman had touched a lot of people there, and some were ready to rethink their lives. — Paulo Coelho

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it. — Rick Atkinson

See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn. — Francis Quarles

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. — Julian Casablancas

AND THEN SOME ... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind ... and then some. They are good friends and neighbors ... and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words ... AND THEN SOME. — Carl Holmes

It's less about technology for me, and more about religion. [on hacking] — Adrian Lamo

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie. — Alan Sugar

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. — Kathryn Harrison