Robert Burns Scotland Quotes

#1. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Robert Burns

#3. It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

Robert Burns

#4. Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

Laurence Overmire

#5. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Plato

#6. 2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

Robert Reed

#7. Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Sarah Addison Allen

#8. O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robert Burns

#9. Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

William Golding

#10. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.

Robert Burns