H. L. Burke Quotes

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

There's no substitute for loyalty.