Robert Burns Quotes

O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.

Robert Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

Andrew Mitchell

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I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

Tom Colicchio

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It is all down to 'The Two Ronnies.' Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.

Ronnie Corbett

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I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

Miranda Otto

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Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and I'd try to help. But I do believe the government should not prohibit a woman from making that decision.

Dick Durbin

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When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

Chet Williamson

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Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Chico Buarque

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The insecurity that comes from being behind bars with, at best, imperfect oversight makes us all feel responsible only for ourselves. We end up either docile, apathetic, and unwilling to engage with each other, or hostile, angry, violent, and resentful.

Chelsea Manning

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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Boy George

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I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.

Wolfgang Paul

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