Burton Raffel Quotes

#1. That struggle was too strong,
hateful and long-lasting, which had come on the people,
dire wrack and ruin - the greatest of night-evils. #Quote by Burton Raffel

#2. Fate will unwind as it must! #Quote by Burton Raffel

#3. Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. #Quote by Burton Raffel

#4. I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me #Quote by Burton Raffel

#5. Early Morning in Your Room
It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasp-like
Coffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep.
The gray light as you pour gleaming water
It seems you've traveled years to get here.
Finally you deserve a house. If not deserve
It, have it; no one can get you out. Misery
Had its way, poverty, no money at least.
Or maybe it was confusion. But that's over.
Now you have a room. Those lighthearted books:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Kafka's Letter
to his Father, are all here. You can dance
With only one leg, and see the snowflake falling
With only one eye. Even the blind man
Can see. That's what they say. If you had
A sad childhood, so what? When Robert Burton
Said he was melancholy, he meant he was home. #Quote by Robert Bly

#6. For those who have found love in the strangest places, in people who are polar opposites in terms of profession and interests, and believe that happily ever after comes from finding common ground. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#7. Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous ... But I ... know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit. #Quote by H. David Burton

#8. The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment. #Quote by Burton Cummings

#9. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' #Quote by Karen Abbott

#10. I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. #Quote by Amanda Burton

#11. It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. #Quote by Sarah Burton

#12. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. #Quote by Robert Burton

#13. Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. #Quote by Richard Francis Burton

#14. Philosophy is an act of seduction between one true lover and another, most often the philosopher and himself. #Quote by Neel Burton

#15. [E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vain-glory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put out trifles, rubbish and trash. Among so many thousand Authors you shall scarce find one by reading of whom you shall be any whit better, but rather much worse; by which he is rather infected than any way perfected…

What a catalogue of new books this year, all his age (I say) have our Frankfurt Marts, our domestic Marts, brought out. Twice a year we stretch out wits out and set them to sale; after great toil we attain nothing…What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast Chaos and confusion of Books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning. For my part I am one of the number - one of the many - I do not deny it... #Quote by Robert Burton

#16. The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun. #Quote by Burton Silverman

#17. Wright correctly diagnoses the failure of the New Quest (and its current heirs, such as the Jesus Seminar, Crossan and Burton L. Mack)" to fit Jesus' overall life and ministry into sufficiently historical contexts and the broader theological narratives of his day. Wright helpfully observes that the uniquely North American work of the Jesus Seminar members is so idiosyncratic that it is often not even taken seriously in other parts of the world (JVG 35 n. 23). #Quote by Carey C. Newman

#18. But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. #Quote by Jessie Burton

#19. I really want to work with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. #Quote by Marisol Nichols

#20. No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,
My subject is of man, and human kind. #Quote by Robert Burton

#21. Give him another chance. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#22. I know." He leaned in and brushed his knuckles across her cheek. "And you can try and pretend it's okay. That you're strong and tough and you don't need anyone. That you didn't need her. But that's all bullshit. I know it, and you know it."
Savannah stared at Cole.
"You're so pushy. I told you my story. Why can't you leave it alone?"
"Have you ever dealt with it?"
She'd spent so many years holding it all inside.
"I'm here right now, aren't I? I obviously dealt with my past."
"I'm not talking about surviving it. Yeah, you survived it. But you haven't let go of it." He rubbed her arm. "What she did to you mattered. It wasn't fair."
He was wrong. She was fine. It didn't matter. She had always shown everyone how strong she was.
"Show me how you feel, Peaches."
Her bottom lip trembled. She got up, walked to the window to look outside, staring at the darkness, not really seeing anything but the years falling away, stripping away the cool, confident woman she was now, revealing the scared little girl she once was. She'd vowed to never go back to that place, to never revisit those feelings again, yet here she stood.
Cole wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened.
"It's okay to be vulnerable, Savannah, to let someone see you scared."
"I'm not scared. Not anymore. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#23. I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time. #Quote by Amanda Burton

#24. So am I. I'll fight for you-for us-no matter what. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#25. I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. #Quote by LeVar Burton

#26. See, that's the problem with men and women and relationshits. Shit. Relasinsips. Dammit. Relationships. There, I got it. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#27. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. #Quote by Richard Francis Burton

#28. I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk. #Quote by Burton Cummings

#29. Sir Richard Francis Burton was a cross between Indiana Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow, with perhaps a little piece of the warrior-poet Aragorn from Lord of the Rings thrown in for good measure. Or maybe I should rephrase that; all these swashbuckling film heroes, including probably John Rambo, may well have been loosely based on Burton and his life #Quote by Karl Wiggins

#30. If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures, proportionally the maker of them is seen. #Quote by Robert Burton

#31. Index funds are ... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns. #Quote by Burton Malkiel

#32. Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton) #Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

#33. I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. #Quote by Richard Burton

#34. Thanks. I appreciate your belief in me. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#35. Bobby conjured up something that scared him to death and he ran out of the house and never came back. Of course you're supposed to close those doors but they never did… I found these cards dating back to the Salem witch trials that were at a house in New York where we lived with Raven, and they were covered in human blood. They were horrifying. I took about ten of them and they almost destroyed my life…The toilets flushed black and there was infestation of flies. Objects were flying off the counters at us. The house smelled like Rosewater Lavender, which was an old cologne people used in the 1600's. We would tell the spirit to leave but it would go into another room. I was someone who didn't believe in any of this and in two weeks I had to become an expert or it would have killed me and my son. Finally I found out who it was, what it was and I had to return it to Salem. Since then it has been a process of getting rid of the residual effects. I had an exorcism done several times….I am a very religious person because of it today. I won't go into it any further but I will say that Cliff Burton of Metallica had the other half of the artifacts that I had and I really believe they killed him #Quote by Jon Wiederhorn

#36. We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas. #Quote by Ron D. Burton

#37. Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. #Quote by Robert A. Burton

#38. All you've done is keep me at arm's length the whole time we've known each other because you're afraid. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#39. A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her. #Quote by Gabrielle Burton

#40. As we have considered the critical need to strengthen families and homes, we have felt that the Lord would have us encourage His beloved daughters to cheerfully cleave to their covenants. When covenants are kept, families are strengthened. #Quote by Linda K. Burton

#41. I love you, Tara. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#42. You're good for me. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#43. Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy ... Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life. #Quote by Theodore M. Burton

#44. Life isn't about what happens to us; life is about how we respond to what happens to us. #Quote by Rodney Burton

#45. I love you, Savannah. #Quote by Jaci Burton

#46. Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are? #Quote by LeVar Burton

#47. He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow. #Quote by Robert Burton

#48. Yes. Oh, hell yes. I love you. Of course I'll marry you. #Quote by Jaci Burton