H J Burdick Quotes

The way I feel about suicide is, I like knowing it's there. I like having it as an option. Because if I'm going to kill myself, then nothing really matters, so I might as well stick around for one more day. Just to see what happens. Out of curiosity. If I'm going to die anyway, then nothing is of particular consequence, so why not see what happens next? That way all I have to do is live until tomorrow. I know I can always handle one more day. ~ Nina De Gramont

Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real. ~ H.J. Blenkinsop

[Kierkegaard] is a prophet denouncing a generation which had sold its birthright of inquisitive ignorance for a mass of information. ~ H.J. Blackham

I'm pretty sure my stomach has a sliver in it from rubbing up against my backbone, so back off, bitch. ~ H.J. Bellus

if you ever feel useless and defeated milly... just remember that you were once the fastest little spermie out of millions ~ H.J. Bellus

DOBBY'S WARNING H ~ J.K. Rowling

One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with wooden stakes. ~ J.H

Sam: I dated a cross eyed girl once but I dumped her cause I thought she was seeing someone else. ~ H.J. Bellus

He looks like he can shit glitter and then make it rain sprinkles. ~ H.J. Bellus

I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right? ~ H.J. Lawson

THE JOURNEY FROM PLATFORM NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS H ~ J.K. Rowling

The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic. ~ H.J. Haskell

I saw your foner." "Foner?" "Your female boner. ~ H.J. Bellus

Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when it comes to kendo."
"I'm also focused when I draw."
"Yeah. The problem is you're still drawing even when you don't have an actual pencil in your hand. ~ H.J. Brues

The Tinder Box is a great read. ~ H.J. Walt Walter

be smart, but don't outsmart the process and
look for shortcuts ~ H.J. Chammas

Everybody has a dream, to male that dream a reality, one must work hard. ~ H.J. Cronin

[ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken. ~ H.J. Brues

HORKLUMP M.O.M. Classification: X The Horklump comes from Scandinavia but is now widespread throughout northern Europe. It resembles a fleshy, pinkish mushroom covered in sparse, wiry black bristles. A prodigious breeder, the Horklump will cover an average garden in a matter of days. It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. The Horklump is a favourite delicacy of gnomes but otherwise has no discernible use. H ~ J.K. Rowling

I love animals, sometimes more than people, because they don't judge. All they want is love. ~ H.J. Lawson

The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ~ H.J. Chammas

Honor without power was a useless decoration and power without honor was the simple flexing of muscle ~ H.J. Brues

[Archbishop Lefebvre's excommunication] may be compared with the excommunications that popes in former times pronounced on their political enemies, sentences which were formally valid but which nobody today would regard as having moral force. In fact its weight is less, for the excommunication came not from a merely secular policy but from one aimed at excluding tradition from the Church or obliging it to compromise with false principles. ~ H.J.A. Sire

In 1866, when it was noon in Washington, D.C., the official local time in Savannah was 11:43; in Buffalo, 11:52; in Rochester, 11:58; in Philadelphia, 12:07; in New York, 12:12; and in Boston, 12:24. There ~ Alan Burdick

Our sense of time's passage is rooted not in one region of the brain but results from the combined working of memory, attention, emotion, and other cerebral activities that can't be singularly localized, Time in the brain, like time outside it, is a collective activity. ~ Alan Burdick

The world is no longer man's theatre. Man has been made into a helpless spectator. The two evil forces he has created- science and the state- have combined into one monstrous body. We're at the mercy of our monster... ~ Eugene Burdick

You can't ever know the difference between a temporal dilation and a temporal contraction. All you can ask is a relative question: which felt longer? We don't ever know which is the 'normal' one. ~David Eagleman ~ Alan Burdick

Indeed, he [Augustine] wrote, what we call three tenses are only one. Past, present, and future don't exist per se; they are all present in the mind - in our current memory of past events, in our current attention to the present, and in our current expectation of what's to come. "There are three tenses or times: the present of past things, the present of present things, and the present of future things". ~ Alan Burdick