Amiee Burtoft Quotes

#1. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. Your nature may carry deception and lies, but then it won't stop me from loving you

Alok Jagawat

#3. It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

Winston S. Churchill

#4. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.

Brian A. McBride

#5. Even the vendors sitting on stools around the periphery work steadily at connection, nodding at potential buyers, like a sewing machine prodding its needle into the cloth.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Dante Alighieri

#7. Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

Mark Miller

#8. We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.

James Lee Burke

#9. Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days of dullness and days of storms. It leaves in one's heart a rainbow of tenderness and forgiveness which illuminates forever the beloved one.

Gabrielle Dubois

#10. Lord, I'll embrace whatever it is you want me to do, but please, please let me know what it is." - Father Kevin Thrall.

Peter J. Tanous

#11. Shit. He was perfect. And he was a killer.

Tijan

#12. Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

Edie Falco