Burleys Pittsboro Quotes & Sayings

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting. — David Beckham

They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward. — Aristotle.

Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately. — Dave Eggers

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt

You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace. — Vincent De Paul

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer. — Faith Prince

What if you allowed your God to exist in he simple words of compassion others offer you? ... What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that? — Cheryl Strayed

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light. — Bruce Jackson

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect. — Christopher Kimball

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, — Geoffrey Canada

Buy my album because ... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this. — Darren Criss

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one. — Billy Crudup

Always assume the best of people. But if a guy proves he's no good, then don't hesitate to give him what he deserves. — Adam Makos