Burguette Quotes & Sayings

The Roman world, like an aged man, wished to dwell in peace and tranquillity and to enjoy in philosophic detachment the good gifts which life has to bestow upon the more fortunate classes. But new ideas disturbed the internal conservatism, and outside the carefully guarded frontiers vast masses of hungry, savage men surged and schemed. The essence of the Roman peace was toleration of all religions and the acceptance of a universal system of government. Every generation after the middle of the second century saw an increasing weakening of the system and a gathering movement towards a uniform religion. Christianity asked again all the questions which the Roman world deemed answered for ever, and some that it had never thought of. — Winston S. Churchill

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

knowing what the problem is makes up for half the battle towards a better life! — Dasrim Hasik

It was like any relationship, he felt - it took constant pruning, and dedication, and vigilance, and if neither party wanted to make the effort, why wouldn't it wither? — Hanya Yanagihara

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. — David Richo

I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep. — Karen Cushman

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. — Joseph Kanon

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. — Giacomo Casanova

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think. — Aimee Bender

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express. — Richard Ford