Brando Kurtz Quotes & Sayings

We mustn't live like those with "little faith" who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job. — Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body. — Ramakrishna

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations. — Jack Lemmon

I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking. — Frances Hesselbein

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it. — Christina Aguilera

We are linked by our shadows, not by our light. — Jun Mochizuki

Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to our Romans, from the street sweepers to the consuls, a vague sense of confidence where no confidence is and at the same time a pervasive fear, a fear which neither arouses to action nor calls forth ingenuity, but which paralyzes. They remove from men's shoulders the unremitting obligation to create, moment by moment, their own Rome. They come to us sanctioned by the usage of our ancestors and breathing the security of our childhood; they flatter passivity and console inadequacy — Thornton Wilder

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. — Plutarch

It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations. — Grant Morrison