Lukina Burks Quotes & Sayings

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. — Scott Weiss

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans. — Jerry Weintraub

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark. — Curtis Martin

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning? — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. — Quentin Tarantino

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. — Hilaire Belloc

She felt sleep creeping up on her like a relentless tide. She tried to summon up a craving for German chocolates. Or New York traffic. Late-night television. Nope. What she really needed was currently scratching her back with the most careful of scratches, humming an off-key melody under his breath. Jessica smiled. — Lynn Kurland

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems. — Thomas A. Edison

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' — Graham Moore

Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

She who weeps when the sun's in sky, Will never pile the platter high. — Margaret Atwood

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator. — Satpal Maharaj