Burley's Quotes

#1. Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

Archie Moore

#2. As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

Adi Shankara

#3. The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.

John Burley

#4. leg in an amputee. Over the centuries, medical treatment had become quite adept at fixing parts of the body that were broken: a shattered bone, or even a shattered mind;

John Burley

#5. eyes cannot see what the mind does not know.

John Burley

#6. She kept her other hand tucked into the front pocket of her hoodie, self-conscious of the two prosthetic fingers, despite the meticulous attention the plastic surgeon had paid to their aesthetic appearance.

John Burley

#7. to mention it to Captain Beale because I

W.J. Burley

#8. We'd been living at Grandpa's for a little more than a year when Mrs. Crandel died. And the next day Kate Helen Branch had a baby. Uncle Burley said that was just the way things were. They put one in and pull another one out.

Wendell Berry

#9. [...] the reason we do not trust one another is because we do not trust ourselves. We know all too well what we are capable of.

John Burley

#10. If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

Brian Clough

#11. He is perhaps fifteen - not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way - and he walks with the energy and indifference of one who possesses the luxury of youth but not yet the experience to appreciate its value or evanescence.

John Burley

#12. An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

James A. Baldwin

#13. HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

John Burley

#14. Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Archie Moore

#15. Every day there are countless reasons why it's not a good day to write. Ignore those reasons and write anyway. Inspiration seldom visits a quiet keyboard.

John Burley

#16. I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.

Burne Hogarth

#17. What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

George Herbert

#18. Have I not care? Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.' 'I

Elizabeth Gaskell

#19. The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren't there.

John Burley

#20. By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

James O'Shaughnessy

#21. People live their whole lives for someday down-the-road, and eventually there is no down-the-road left.

John Burley

#22. If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

Pete Hamill

#23. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Sol Luckman

#24. I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

John Lennon

#25. The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures reminding me of a congregation of amputees gathered in the wake of a war.

John Burley

#26. He Was not a health nut, was not out to mold himself a stylishly slim body. He did not live on nuts and berries; if the furnace was hot enough, anything would burn, even Big Macs.

John L. Parker Jr.

#27. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Wendell Berry