Lialis Burtonis Quotes & Sayings

I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform. — Barney Frank

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. — Diane Setterfield

Or else rip out the odd pages and leave me the even. — David Mitchell

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero. — Richard Attenborough

Great people especially must be careful about what they worship. — John Green

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens. — Marcel Proust

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. — Christopher Lasch

Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again. — Ikkyu

I've got an age that I do think of myself. — Clive Owen

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, — Sue Grafton

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman. — George Harrison

In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore. — Dylan Morrison

All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. — Steven Spielberg