Burklands Quotes & Sayings

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied. — Urvashi Vaid

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties! — Helena Christensen

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz

Deadlines and daily dilemmas are stressful focus on solutions problems concerns don't sweat make best out of the moment. — Kishore Bansal

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created — John Ralston Saul

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress. — Epictetus

The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life. — Tad R. Callister

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw

The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more in the modern Internet era you came across isolated instances of a mind virus or worm: brains that self-washed, bathed in received ideologies that came down from on high, ideologies that could remain dormant or hidden for years, silent as death until they struck. Almost anything could happen now, and did. — Jeff VanderMeer

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. — Ashwin Sanghi

Compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature. — John Dewey

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped. — Ken Wilber

You're going to let me kiss you," he said.
It wasn't a question, but she nodded anyway, and he closed the distance between their mouths.
His lips were soft and his kiss softer. And he pulled back too fast, in her opinion. Way too fast.
"If you want more," he said in a low, husky voice, "I want to give it to you."

-Rehv & Ehlena — J.R. Ward