Burglingtonstore Quotes & Sayings

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party). — Jack Kornfield

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones. — Michel De Montaigne

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? — Thomas Traherne

It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Every daydream that involves the past sports in its hatband a ticket to the grave. — Tom Robbins

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker

Did I please you?"
Silhara raised his head slowly to stare at her. High color flagged his cheekbones. His pupils swallowed the lighter black of his eyes. "Please me? You've vanquished me. — Grace Draven

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist

He wore his own innocence like a comfortable old coat. — Alice Sebold

I really believe that music is the only motivation you need-regardless of genre-after that everything else you need to guide you just somehow falls in line-it's all about the beats! — Rickey Russell

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won't. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time. — Lilian Katz