Burret Quotes & Sayings

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim

Somebody made everything for some reason. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Somehow she could always think better when all her hair was out of her face. Stupid, but true. — Melinda Metz

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. — January Jones

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. — Foundation For Inner Peace

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. — Frank Gaffney

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want. — Bill McCollum

The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only
work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:
whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher,
was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman! — Ford Madox Ford

There are moments when I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil are broken spokes in the great wheel of good which shall in due time be mad whole. — Helen Keller

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. — Sue Grafton

The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself. — Deborah Sandella

I regret nothing. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. I'm not quarreling with your choice of issues, only with your intellectually diminished approach. If evil means to be self-motivated, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. — Janet Fitch

I have a short attention span. — Tony Scott

You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget. — Kevin Hearne

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell