Burtear Quotes & Sayings

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle.

It's all about sound. It's that simple. — Eddie Van Halen

I started to dream, which was weird not only because I was dead, but because I never dream. People have tried to argue with me about that. They say everybody dreams and I just don't remember mine. But, I'm telling you, I always slept like the dead. Until I was dead. Then I dreamed like a normal person. — Rick Riordan

We're all human beings,
when did we change to havings?
Living out our life through things.
How do we get back to being again? — Tracey Madeley

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch. — Tawni O'Dell

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect
and shame comes when you lose that title
a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect. — Kwame Anthony Appiah

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter. — David Levithan

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life. — Thomas Merton