Heartburnings Quotes

#1. There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

Mark Twain

#2. Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder. But with a clear purpose, we are far more likely to persevere.

Jen Wilkin

#3. Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

John Milton

#4. I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

Steve Toltz

#5. Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

Jo Brand

#6. Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world ... the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.

Anthony Liccione

#8. Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind.

Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje

#9. I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Flann O'Brien

#10. We fall.
All casualties of the war,
Because we cannot hear each other speak,
Because eyes have ceased to see the face from the crowd.

John Pepper Clark

#11. It's an important fact of life, war.

Jeff Goldblum

#12. Live a simple life.
Enjoy life and be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

Sri Chinmoy

#14. Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

James Dobson

#15. I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.

Alan Furst

#16. History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.

Joshua Clover