Edmund Burke Quotes

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Actor

• Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Control
  • My Life

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Clothes
  • Old
  • Lady

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Love
  • Land

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Truth
  • Stereotypes
  • Cliches

• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sickness

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  • People

• In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • War

• I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

  

  Adam Goucher
  • Fight
  • Race
  • Opponent

• I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Country

• I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • Sleep