Eleventh Grade Burns Quotes & Sayings

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves. — Woodrow Wilson

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. — Barbara Tuchman

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. — Rem Koolhaas

In a lending library you see people's real tastes, not their pretended ones, and one thing that strikes you is how completely the 'classical' English novelists have dropped out of favour. It is simply useless to put Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Trollope, etc. into the ordinary lending library; nobody takes them out. At the mere sight of a nineteenth-century novel people say, 'Oh, but that's OLD!' and shy away immediately. Yet it is always fairly easy to SELL Dickens, just as it is always easy to sell Shakespeare. Dickens is one of those authors whom people are 'always meaning to' read, — George Orwell

A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I love to wear original pieces you can't find just anywhere. — China Anne McClain

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man ... even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you ... God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection." — Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi

Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action. — Ludwig Von Mises

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys? — Adriana Trigiani

The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles. — Robyn Jones

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts. — K. Pattabhi Jois