Accepted Quote by Pat Burns

Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.

— Pat Burns

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

— Pat Burns

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not…

— Anton Chekhov

I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they…

— John Shelby Spong

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed…

— Vanessa L Ochs

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality,…

— Henry Roth

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring…

— Israel Zangwill

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky