Bursty Quotes & Sayings

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own. — Madeleine L'Engle

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Samkit' (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self). — Dada Bhagwan

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. — Emily Giffin

Today bursty search patterns explain an amazingly wide range of behavioral phenomena, from how people recall facts stored in their memory to how they locate information on the World Wide Web. In publication after publication, scientists have offered evidence that the most effective strategy for locating a given target is not the one that is the most obvious, systematic, and regular but a search strategy that is bursty, intermittent, and even haphazard. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

But love isn't about causing pain for the person you care about, — Maya Banks

To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love. — Bell Hooks

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. — Giada De Laurentiis

If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm there in a heartbeat. — Tony Revolori

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family. — Mary Karr

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society. — Clarence Thomas

One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed. — Chanakya

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore. — Catherine Ryan Hyde