Edmund Burke Quotes

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

Edmund Burke

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• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Way
  • Me

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Achieve

• Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Wish
  • Like
  • I Wish

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Understand

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Hope

• Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • Time

• The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

  

  Christopher Lee

• Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

  

  Joe Flanigan
  • May
  • Pretty
  • Learning

• Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

  

  Paul Hawken
  • Change
  • Connected

• That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

  

  Edmund Burke