Tarkowski Burnley Quotes & Sayings

Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria! — Ernest Cline

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures. — Baruch Spinoza

Countries with high levels of atheism are also the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world. The dubious link between Christian literalism and Christian values is belied by other indices of social equality. Consider the ratio of salaries paid to top-tier CEOs and those paid to the same firms' average employees: in Britain it is 24:1; in France, 15:1; in Sweden, 13:1; in the United States, where 80 percent of the population expects to be called before God on Judgment Day, it is 475:1. Many a camel, it would seem, expects to pass easily through the eye of a needle. — Sam Harris

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. — James M. Barrie

Life can last just so long, you understand. Everything else is in the room, with darkness, with God's language, with screams. Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. — Paul Auster

President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications. — P. J. O'Rourke

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal

Good story thrives on protagonists in pain. — Chuck Wendig

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics. — John Bercow

I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. — Teri Garr

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. — Ross Perot

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. — Elizabeth Warren

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. — James Denton