Burnedalive Quotes & Sayings

Running a company is pretty demanding. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller. — John Burnham Schwartz

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others. — Joseph Butler

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it. — Mat Johnson

Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time. — Vladimir Nabokov

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings. — K.A. Applegate

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. — James F. Cooper

I've found my sweet spot here in public service. — Tim Walberg

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal

That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dream. She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never been. There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects with mandibles of gold. A young girl was being led through the streets. She was taken to a pyre where she was wound in a sheet and placed up on a platform built from sticks. The bright fire that consumed her brought my mother into that deep, light, dreamlike bliss. The girl was being burned alive, but, first, there had been her body, clean and whole. — Alice Sebold

There were two men in this city responsible for destroying her life and the people she'd loved. She would not leave Rifthold until she'd buried them both. — Sarah J. Maas

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled. — George Soros

You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world - that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature - but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid. — Franz Kafka

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — William Jones

Mindfulness is a pause
the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. — Tara Brach