Robert Burns Quotes

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

Topics

StruggleMindReadyExistenceStore

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

WinThinkMediaTryingYouYoung

Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.

John O. Brennan

OpportunityHopeFreedomEquality

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Matthew Fox

ThinkYouWayNeverThingsGet

I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.

Michael Ignatieff

RespectBestPoliticsPeopleGame

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

Stacey D'Erasmo

FirstStoriesNovelsAutobiographical

I respect anyone who could take a stagecoach ride from the East Coast to the West. You had to be a very special kind of person to survive that because it's the most uncomfortable ride in the world.

Sinbad

RespectRideWorldSurviveYouKind

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.

Tom DeLonge

HopeRidePeopleMeBelieveBetter

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

Ron Johnson

VotingI CanDonald TrumpEverything

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

Ron White

LiveMusicLookingGoAlwaysOut

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

MeanSafeKeepOneselfBuryDoes

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

Lou Holtz

WaterDrinkYearsDrank

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

Douglas Brunt

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