Roland Burris quotes

Roland Burris quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.”
-- Roland Burris

Source : "Showdown Looms as Burris Declares 'I Am Now the Junior Senator'", www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2009.

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“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.”

Source : "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.
“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.”
“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”
“Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?”
“But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.”
“Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.”
“Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?”
“I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.”
“If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.”

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