Doctor Burke Quotes

There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's Memoirs ; Rabelais ; Montaigne ; Izaak Walton; Evelyn; Sir Thomas Browne; Aubrey ; Sterne ; Horace Walpole ; Lord Clarendon ; Doctor Johnson ; Burke, shedding floods of light on his times ; Lamb; Landor ; and De Quincey ;- a list, of course, that may easily be swelled, as dependent on individual caprice. Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections. Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. ~ Edmund Burke

Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. "He's a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum," says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. "The Doctor is a myth. He's straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really."29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series' past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor. ~ Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen

Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton. ~ James Lee Burke

THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order. ~ Edmund Burke

Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton ... ~ James Lee Burke

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. ~ James Lee Burke

Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them? ~ Warrior Doctor

War Doctor: Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?
Eleventh Doctor: Yes.
[Claps his hands together]
Eleventh Doctor: No. ~ Steven Moffat

Dangers by being despised grow great. ~ Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. ~ Edmund Burke

She smiled at him, and he stopped breathing. ~ Allie Burke

Could scars be beautiful? Because Shane's were. ~ Dez Burke

We're all stories in the end. ~ The Doctor

Truth in the heart of heresy ~ The Doctor

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~ Edmund Burke

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica. ~ Edmund Burke

Every question selects a field of battle. ~ Kenneth Burke

Turn over a new leaf. ~ Edmund Burke

It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion ~ Kenneth Burke

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle. ~ Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to every thing. ~ Edmund Burke

I want to be a professional. ~ Chris Burke

Cocaine, yeahhhhhhh!!!!! ~ Shannon Burke

Cursing's for the uncreative. They say "Frack! on Battlestar Galactica, and everyone still knows what it means. ~ Alafair Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts ~ Edmund Burke

Bow ties are cool. ~ Steven Moffat

Ecology teaches us "that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone," wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, "but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole. ~ Kenneth Burke

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull. ~ Kenneth Burke

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. ~ Edmund Burke

I just want to be like other people that are normal. ~ Chris Burke

Our healing begins with self-awareness, with making invisible influences more visible. ~ Adam Burke

When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands. ~ James Burke

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. ~ James Lee Burke

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit ~ James Lee Burke

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. ~ Edmund Burke

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles. ~ Edmund Burke

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. ~ Edmund Burke

He already missed her, even before he shut the front door behind him. ~ Allie Burke

The Doctor and Donna see each other across the room
The Doctor: Donna?
Donna: Doctor!
The Doctor: What are, what are you - ?
Donna: Oh. My. God!
The Doctor: How?
Donna: It's me!
The Doctor: I can see that.
Donna: Oh this is brilliant!
The Doctor: What the hell are you doing there?
Donna: I was looking for you!
The Doctor: What for?
Donna: I read it on the internet ... it's weird ... crept along ... heard them talking ... looked ... It's you! Th
Miss Foster: Are we interrupting you?
The Doctor: Run!
-Doctor Who ~ Russell T. Davies

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. ~ Edmund Burke

Education is a nation's cheapest defence ~ Edmund Burke

Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity. ~ James Lee Burke

Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science. ~ Edmund Burke

All of your quotes are getting on my nerves. ~ Peter Burke

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable. ~ Allie Burke

No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. ~ Edmund Burke

Girl: Doctor, doctor! A German shepherd bit my finger. Doctor: Which one? Girl: The one owned by Mr. James next door! ~ Various

You don't have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already. ~ Lita Burke

Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope. ~ Melissa Burke

Brave hea-" The Doctor sighed. "Chin up. ~ David A. McIntee

Besides, who makes all these silly rules? ~ H.L. Burke

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick. ~ Steven Moffat

It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves ~ James Lee Burke

They didn't let you bring marijuana on airplanes, apparently, as hard as that was to believe. ~ Allie Burke

What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone? ~ Allie Burke

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ~ Michael Burke

I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely. ~ Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Everything isn't dead. Only gone. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke

I just love the world of photography. ~ Brooke Burke

I messed my pants, he said. ~ James Lee Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller. ~ Edmund Burke

You've got a choice. Peace or war? Life or death? Harmony or hate? I've never understood why that even needs discussion, it's so flippin' obvious! ~ Juno Dawson

Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day. ~ James Lee Burke

Love is nature's way of clouding our common sense so we breed first and ask questions later. ~ H.L. Burke

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses. ~ Lita Burke

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. ~ Edmund Burke

Now ... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It's almost like breathing. ~ James Goss

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. ~ Edmund Burke

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive! ~ Steven Moffat

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn. ~ Edmund Burke

Maggie's face darkened, as ~ James Lee Burke

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him. ~ Lita Burke

Amy: "Can I come?"
Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back."
Amy: "People always say that."
Doctor: "Am I people? ... Do I even look like people? ... Trust me, I'm the Doctor. ~ Steven Moffat

900 years of time and space and I've never met someone who wasn't important. ~ The 11th Doctor

The ocean is an object of no small terror. ~ Edmund Burke

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken. ~ Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. ~ Edmund Burke

Big as a horse turd floating in a milk shake.
Wyatt Dixson ~ James Lee Burke

The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing. ~ Edmond Burke

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried. ~ Solomon Burke

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. ~ Edmund Burke

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north! ~ Russell T. Davies

I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world! ~ Brooke Burke

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me. ~ Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free. ~ Edmund Burke

Celibacy was a choice; asexual was just who he was. ~ Sam Burke

I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.'
The Doctor beamed breathlessly at her. 'Fun to be with and good for you. Gotta be just what the doctor ordered. ~ Mike Tucker

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ~ Edmund Burke

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation ... ~ Edmund Burke

The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record. ~ James Lee Burke

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice. ~ James Lee Burke

Is Doctor Proteus on?" said Kroner's secretary. "Doctor Kroner is in." "Just a moment," said Katharine. "Doctor Proteus, Doctor Kroner is in and will speak to you." "All right, I'm on." "Doctor Proteus is on the line," said Katharine. "Doctor Kroner, Doctor Proteus is on the line." "Tell him to go ahead," said Kroner. "Tell Doctor Proteus to go ahead," said Kroner's secretary. "Doctor Proteus, please go ahead," said Katharine. "This is Paul Proteus, Doctor Kroner. I'm returning your call. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Wizard's work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards. ~ Lita Burke

A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. ~ James Lee Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. ~ Edmund Burke

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. ~ Edmund Burke

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. ~ Solomon Burke