FastSaying

It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not fear,
as the preferred force in your life.


Sheila Burke

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA M. BURKE And when I don’t feel it, it’s pointless.
Think about getting up it’s pointless.
Thi...
SARAH KANE It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurlin...
VERONICA ROTH But I didn't know about the other story."
"What other story?”
"About how you and Adrian ...
RICHELLE MEAD Well, you would realize…
Like i eventually realized…
That the good things about her? COLLEEN HOOVER Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
No amount of money,
Can stop me from loving you,
CHRIS COLFER It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard
MORGAN MATSON Love is a fire that burns unseen,
a wound that aches yet isn’t felt,
an always disconten...
LUíS DE CAMõES It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in,
because then it�...
ADRIANNA STEPIANO I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…
it’s a concept...
AL PACINO CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whe...
VIKRMN IT’S ALL CLEAR
ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE
YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR
BUT DON'T WOR...
WIDAD AKREYI ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
DAVID LEVITHAN I love you in–in every kind of way.’
‘I feel like that too . . .’ His voice is shocked ...
TABITHA SUZUMA Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust...
RON W. RATHBUN It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any...
ARUN D. ELLIS Life is the muse which perfectly rhymes,
Plays with the words and fills empty lines.

NINO VARSIMASHVILI It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty
percent survival rate and he’s ...
JOHN GREEN I believe in love at first sight…
But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, i...
RANATA SUZUKI You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST It’s a love of Piscean that you will never understand but it will hit your core not knowingly you ...
HAMEED QURESHI So the boy’s life is still in jeopardy,” Ghastek said.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. ILONA ANDREWS It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life.

It’s staying with [them] now because [they] ...
BRIAN MOORE I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Heaven left a hole in your heart.

But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be fi...
TESSA SHAFFER Who’s arguing now?”
“Cat…”
I smile innocently. It’s hard not to laugh. “Ye...
AMANDA BOUCHET Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do:

Fi...
RICHIE NORTON You're badly wounded.
You're bleeding but not cut.
You feel like dying but you're not.
BRADLEY B. DALINA You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI Now that you’re old, cut yourself some slack, would you?

Let yourself off the hook.
LIONEL FISHER And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true.

Wh...
DAVID LEVITHAN It’s one thing to have a support system in your life
to cheer you on during the instances whe...
ALICIA COOK Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But n...
MARY E. PEARSON It’s easy to give up,
It’s hard to fight,
A gentle soft kiss makes you feel delight.
BAJRANG SULTANIA I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li...
KURT VONNEGUT They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change your
destiny?”. Well...
KEDAR JOSHI How do you know, when you think blue — when you say blue — that you are talking about the same...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Dear brother,

I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonabl...
VINCENT VAN GOGH When

When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
MARY OLIVER I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
I will share your burden
so you feel it...
KAMAND KOJOURI So say I’m your mom.'
'What?' I said.
'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you wa...
SARAH DESSEN Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA You’re smarter than you look,’ I say to Raffe.

‘But not as smart as he thinks,’ s...
SUSAN EE Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ...
VERONICA ROTH It’s funny because my life is full of this:

you think you’re escaping, until you run ...
CHANGDICTATOR It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant
3 beers in. Believe me, even I’m surprised <...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Look for it, and it can’t be seen.
Listen for it, and it can’t be heard.
Grasp for it,...
LAO TZU Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH IT’S A FUNNY THING TO be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you mi...
KIERA CASS Life has a complex plan that involves you and me.
While we dream, work and organize, life makes...
JAIME BUCKLEY One word can change your life forever.

I love you
I hate you

Think about ...
ALAN MACMILLAN ORR FORBIDDEN
Pain without learning is forbidden,
waking up one day not knowing what to do, JOSé N. HARRIS Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on ...
JENNIFER LANE Nothing you did could have changed anything.
And that being angry and blaming yourself for not...
TESSA SHAFFER Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”

He ...
DIANA GABALDON We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE Funny thing, your brain,
how it always functions on one
level or another. How, even stuck ...
ELLEN HOPKINS What’s happening is a very stern lecture. You do not walk to your car at night, alone, ever again....
GENA SHOWALTER …it’s not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.
LOUISE PENNY I’ll give you one chance to run,
but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…
RYAN GOODRICH you're not in love
you're in pain
and there's nothing
romantic or loving
about ...
R.H. SIN A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers

You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And...
ARZUM UZUN I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes.
“You love me?”
“It’s the tatto...
JAMIE MCGUIRE It’s worth all the aches,
All the tears,
the mistakes…
COLLEEN HOOVER To love is to think.
And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.
I don’t k...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Now I'm dreaming, will I ever find you now?
I walk in circles but I'll never figure out
Wh...
ELLIE GOULDING If someone don’t want you, then it’s not the time to blame them, but it’s the time to think ab...
DR. ARUN S SON . . . It’s me?”
“Of course it’s you.
KIERA CASS Whatever she says to you, it’s your job
not to let her make you mad.
HARPER LEE She reached for the notebook she kept in her purse. Bea found the page and read to calm and steady h...
SADEQA JOHNSON You need to think about all that, Sam,” Dekka said. “You’re the leader, after all.”
“...
MICHAEL GRANT It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not lis...
MARTHA MEDEIROS Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
          ...
RICHARD SIKEN It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very mu...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
MARY OLIVER It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything li...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
MARKUS ZUSAK There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend ou...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA What did he do to you?”

“This,” I said, holding up my hand. There was a shattering...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And the thing about love," Wally said to Angel, "is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to...
JOHN IRVING It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.”
“Right after I g...
BRYNN KELLY It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down.

No, it’s sure n...
M.T. ANDERSON Tonight, It's not about You, Tonight It's about Me,
It's about How Your absence, troubles me, SYED MURTAZA HAROON What I want from you is simple. I want today only.

If it’s laughter, I want it. If it�...
D. LOVE It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.”
CHRISTINA HENRY My
name’s Travis. Travis Maddox.”
I rolled my eyes. “I know who you are.”
...
JAMIE MCGUIRE It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young w...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN

More Sheila Burke

Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves...
SHEILA BURKE When I think of Tao,
I think of the artist
Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. ...
SHEILA BURKE Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rol...
SHEILA BURKE You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change y...
SHEILA BURKE You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to dri...
SHEILA BURKE Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA BURKE When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control...
SHEILA BURKE The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.
SHEILA BURKE Sometimes you’re going to
shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces....
SHEILA BURKE Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
SHEILA BURKE When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, y...
SHEILA BURKE You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to dri...
SHEILA M. BURKE When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, y...
SHEILA M. BURKE Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA M. BURKE It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA M. BURKE Sometimes you’re going to
shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces....
SHEILA M. BURKE When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control...
SHEILA M. BURKE You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change y...
SHEILA M. BURKE Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rol...
SHEILA M. BURKE Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
SHEILA M. BURKE The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
SHEILA M. BURKE Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
SHEILA BALLANTYNE The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E. You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberanc...
SHEILA GRAHAM You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILA GRAHAM Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
SHEILA GRAHAM Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, erotic...
SHEILA JEFFRYS (The teams) washed cars, bared their legs, sold garage sale junk, offered luminaries, sold suns and ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nomina...
SHEILA E. You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to tr...
SHEILA BALLANTYNE If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS ...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology. SHEILA JEFFREYS I didn't realize, actually, at the time how terribly important this documentary was. I didn't know t...
SHEILA NEVINS This documentary is about tapping into a celebration of gay people and prejudice against gay familie...
SHEILA NEVINS a singular creative force in what may be called high-impact television.
SHEILA NEVINS respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.
SHEILA NEVINS When a man is close to tears discussing his work and his lip quivers, he deserves bosses who punch b...
SHEILA NEVINS The critical issue is to have a mentor, period, ... You want a mentor who has clout and who can be h...
SHEILA WELLINGTON Weld County should be proud of the fact that we've been able to sustain this kind of event for 25 ye...
SHEILA AVERS Our area just has a low amount of fertilizer in the natural soil. They won't grow well without ferti...
SHEILA BOETTCHER He was suspended immediately, within minutes of his arrest.
SHEILA WEISS I never knew You lived so close to the floor,
but every time I am bowed down,
crushed by t...
SHEILA WALSH Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the pro...
SHEILA JEFFREYS Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty...
SHEILA CONNOLLY That's probably one of the reasons we picked a volcano. It's enduring but unpredictable.
SHEILA HUGHES I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage.
SHEILA ESCOVEDO To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to b...
SHEILA E. These issues should not be resolved with a Santa Claus yarmulke.
SHEILA GORDON Those are the times when we really need to crunch down and get a stop somehow.
SHEILA ROUX If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS There are lots of pieces that are unknown.
SHEILA SCHUSTER As tragic as this result is, unfortunately, it is not a surprise. We have been afraid for several we...
SHEILA CROWLEY We called his references. If you saw his recommendations, they were glowing. Nobody said anything ab...
SHEILA WEISS I took the situation into my own hands — I was just being a mama.
SHEILA PORTER Jim Sullivan killed his wife. The state is going to prove it. We ask that you find him guilty.
SHEILA ROSS Twelve hours. It can stretch out forever when you're waiting to hear the report on a biopsy. It can ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP In our day and age, cyberspace remains the most promising outlet for the exercise of the most elemen...
SHEILA CORONEL The problems of this country are so profound, there's a prolonged impasse. I don't see any solution ...
SHEILA CORONEL For me the problem is not political. The problem is social inequality. There is a mass of people who...
SHEILA CORONEL I'm not getting emotionally involved any more. It makes me too angry.
SHEILA CORONEL It's very insidious. They say they are studying filing sedition charges. They say they have lists, b...
SHEILA CORONEL You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILA GRAHAM You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILA GRAHAM We've been to New Orleans three or four times and just couldn't believe the people could be having s...
SHEILA ALLEN If you make an error, it's already on the computer and you can correct it. You can also track a docu...
SHEILA ALLEN those children will be coming into our district. We need to have kindergarten classrooms ready for t...
SHEILA ALLEN the neighborhood did not know what the school board and the district were thinking.
SHEILA ALLEN I don't even really know who Ron White is.
SHEILA ALLEN We were expecting a plane of folks from FEMA, ... What we're doing now is working with families who ...
SHEILA ALLEN When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve i...
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM in our own place.
SHEILA NEWBERRY his hands, trying to stem the
SHEILA NEWBERRY Hospital, and they raised money during the Jubilee in 1897 to enlarge it—’ ‘I don’t want one...
SHEILA NEWBERRY face. I’m a fool, he thought, chasing a dream like my uncle, and now it’s all turned to ashes. W...
SHEILA NEWBERRY However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is tha...
SHEILA JEFFREYS There are some industry standards in flight numbering. For most carriers, all eastbound flights end ...
SHEILA WIEDEMANN Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is b...
SHEILA JEFFREYS It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes em...
SHEILA HANCOCK You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you."
"We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam repli...
SHEILA MOON It all hinges on getting a little bit of financing. If the funding doesn't come through, the I'll be...
SHEILA MCGREGOR (The Relay) was held with 12 hours of celebration, laughter, tears, reflection, walking -- and even ...
SHEILA BLANKENSHIP I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai...
SHEILA E. Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Som...
SHEILA WALSH I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen a...
SHEILA WALSH That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f...
SHEILA MOON this daddy longlegs...became like a pet,' I offered. 'I remember that.'
'Not something you cou...
SHEILA HETI But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has b...
SHEILA WALSH The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is...
SHEILA WALSH The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can...
SHEILA KOHLER Carroll did a good job. We didn't move a lot offensively and we didn't move the ball a lot offensive...
SHEILA DINARDO It just sums it all up, of how focused she is as a player. I think when she gets into a game, she bl...
SHEILA DINARDO America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and th...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
SHEILA M. EBY My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I w...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their F...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due proces...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. E...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE If it affects drugs that people need the most, we will have to take a look at it.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE For too long, we've allowed our facilities to operate without checks and balances. We just assume a ...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE Separating these two legislative initiatives would be like separating the flag from the Pledge of Al...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empower...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of do...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those wh...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE This is a historical year for the Black Caucus, and we are reaching out to bring our community toget...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE We are saddened by the tremendous devastation suffered by so many communities, families and individu...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Doesn't matter what other people do. The only competition you should beat is yourself. So strive to ...
SHEILA DELA PENA The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts’ record, it is imperative that there is i...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mothe...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black...
DELTA BURKE There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE This is just going to be a different year because of the rain. Now it's going to be a matter of keep...
ALANE BURKE We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, s...
ALANE BURKE The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
ALANE BURKE I definitely think we can make playoffs. We're starting to really click and look strong. We have a c...
ALANE BURKE Not only does Sarah have great physical and technical skills for the game, but she also has a great ...
ALANE BURKE She had been hoping to play stopper her senior year and now she is. She earned that position. She's ...
ALANE BURKE She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
DELTA BURKE The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
DELTA BURKE Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transit...
DELTA BURKE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I...
SUZIE BURKE Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to ...
JAMES BURKE A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat...
EDMUND BURKE Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
EDMUND BURKE Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
EDMUND BURKE By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
EDMUND BURKE Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existi...
EDMUND BURKE Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
EDMUND BURKE A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
EDMUND BURKE Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE