Peter Burke quotes

“All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.”
-- Peter Burke

#Nerves Quotes

“Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.”
-- Peter Burke

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“Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.”
-- Peter Burke

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“Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It’s making a life together and making it work no matter what happens.”
-- Peter Burke

#Real Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“There's always faith... Faith that whatever the other is doing, it's for a good reason.”
-- Peter Burke

#Reason Quotes

“You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.”
-- Peter Burke

#Men Quotes

“From time to time historians need to be shocked.”
-- Peter Burke

#Needs Quotes #Historian Quotes #Shocked Quotes

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”

Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House

“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve”

“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.”

“I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.”

“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”

“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”

“You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin”

“The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.”

Source : FaceBook post by Boris Becker from Oct 22, 2013