Norina Burt Quotes & Sayings

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country. — Andrew Sullivan

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. — Kenny Marchant

At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross
at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken. — Edgar Allan Poe

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day. — Bertie Carvel

If you were writing poetry it was somewhat safer to be a woman than a man. — Alice Munro

He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called "rest camp," I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time. — Viktor E. Frankl

I think you're strange, and what you did was a strange thing to do. — Ainslie Hogarth

God is the Light of the heavens and the earth;
the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp
(the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star)
lit from a blessed tree,
an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West
whose oil wellnigh would shine,
even if no life touched it;
Light upon Light; — Anonymous

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. — Yann Martel

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work. — Ann Romney

Prejudice is permafrost — David Mitchell

Jesus is love.
He is our hope.
So love Jesus and be hopeful. — Calvin W. Allison