Top 42 Burdett Quotes
#1. I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
John Burdett
#2. Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of virile youth against Hudson's superior rank and thus restore his ego after that humiliating reprimand.
John Burdett
#3. Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.
Robert Conrad
#4. To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
John Burdett
#5. Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We
John Burdett
#6. We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset?
John Burdett
#7. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
Peter F. Hamilton
#8. When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
John Burdett
#9. I used to love the storms when I was younger,' Grump said. "I would climb the cypresses and leap into the sky and roar at the thunder. There's nothing like flying into the rain and embracing the wind. It's true freedom.
Aaron Burdett
#10. there's nothing on Oya I fear. I am the thing that's feared, the stories humans tell their children to keep them in their beds. I'm what lurks in the dark. I'm what cracks branches in the night, slowly moving through the shadows on my way to my meal.
Aaron Burdett
#11. On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
#12. In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
John Burdett
#13. The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.
John Burdett
#14. 'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'
John Burdett
#15. There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
John Burdett
#16. Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
John Burdett
#17. It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.
George R R Martin
#18. Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.
Aaron Burdett
#19. The average plan administrator charges 1.3% to 1.5% annually (according to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office). That's $1,300 for every $100,000 just to participate in the 401(k). So when you add this 1.3% for the plan administration to the total mutual fund costs of 3.17%, it
Anthony Robbins
#20. 90% of the world's data was created in the last two years
Marc Benioff
#21. I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
#22. The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
John Burdett
#23. It is your only way home, my brother! And maybe our only way out of here alive.
Tracy Hickman
#24. Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
John Burdett
#25. No drug or drink can match the high/kick that a Sale gives you! Though the feeling can never be expressed in words but I feel like I am the king and on top of this world!
Honeya
#26. The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
John Burdett
#27. [...] But the book showed me a glimpse of the world beyond mine, of the sun and moon and the starry sky, of the creatures that walk on land instead of beneath it, of the miracles of what could be and not the... awful of what is. I'd never dreamed before I found that book. That's all I did after.
Aaron Burdett
#28. The sound she is making is the sound hearts make after they're in
pieces and the fragments dissolve into the overwhelming sadness of the
universe. The power to hear it may be the only privilege of the
thoroughly dispossessed.
John Burdett
#30. I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.
John Burdett
#31. If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
John Burdett
#32. In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
John Burdett
#33. You don't seem the type to endorse the obscure dictates of polite society," she noted, thinking that he only played at being a gentlemen. There was something rather rebellious about him.
Elizabeth Cole
#35. Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
John Burdett
#36. Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
John Burdett
#37. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.
Judith Viorst
#38. You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way
John Burdett
#40. Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
Lana Del Rey
#41. Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
John Burdett
#42. The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
Louis Nizer
