Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.
People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.
All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.
You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the dead care?
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?
The headline read, Man Saves Child From Burning House, and I just have to ask: Why did that kid want to burn down the house?
David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
[Roy's wife does not believe how he got the burns on his face] Roy Neary: Well they're not moon burns, goddamnit.
Walter Burns: There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey... here. Hildy Johnson: Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago.
Charlie Burns: How do you feel? Fast Eddie: Fast and loose, man. Charlie Burns: In the gut, I mean. Fast Eddie: I feel tight, but good.
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.
The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Where there is a strong desire and profound hope, there is a way.
