Bursillus Quotes & Sayings

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. — Lewis Wolpert

All this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips ... — John Geddes

Language is not morally neutral because the human brain is not neutral in its desires. Neither is the dog brain. Neither is the bird brain: crows hate owls. We like some things and dislike others, we approve of some things and disapprove of others. Such is the nature of being an organism. — Margaret Atwood

Don't threaten me, you piece of filth. — M.J. Carter

With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have. — Graham Hawkes

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. — Marcia Muller

The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London, — Donald L. Miller

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy! — Emmy Rossum

In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you. — Julie James

My mind does not change with the rising and setting of a few suns — J.R.R. Tolkien

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead. — Al Sharpton

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures. — Emily Yoffe