Scottish Poet Robert Burns Quotes

#1. You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

George Schaller

#2. And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Madeleine Albright

#3. Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

Seneca The Younger

#4. He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

#5. Let me tell you something, planes and kids ... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Steve Zahn

#6. You are under-qualified for the job of God.

Timothy Keller

#7. Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#8. Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.

Carmela Dutra

#9. I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

August Spies

#10. Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.

Robert Burns

#11. The one you give your word to needs to be worthy of trust and respect.

Ivan Kal

#12. We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced - or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

Sophie Kinsella

#13. There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

David Hockney

#14. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Mitch Daniels

#15. If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Peter Sellers

#16. Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Morris Gleitzman