Kellan Grady Quotes & Sayings

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. — Bertrand Russell

I was a Marxist Utopian dreamer for a decade before I learned the vulnerabilities of Marxist theories. As I looked back it was full of deeply flawed arguments, but they were central to my thoughts in the fifties. I let their words saturate my mind before I went to seminary, and they remained in my mind like a ghost well beyond my years at Yale.The ideas I most loved were expressed by three in particular: the will to power (Nietzsche), the desire to understand the sexual roots of all behavior (Freud) and the search for radical social change (Marx). Even today when I speak of modernity, I am pointing especially to those three prototypes of modern consciousness. — Thomas C. Oden

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design. — Thucydides

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential. — Zig Ziglar

She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They're blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can't make the effort to systematize it ... They can't take it any further. And why not? Because they won't put in the effort. Because they haven't had discipline pounded into them. They've been spoiled. — Haruki Murakami

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful. — Yolanda Adams

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England. — Thomas B. Macaulay

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself. — Michael Shannon

Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices. — John Friend

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience. — Ogwo David Emenike

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent. — Loretta Lynn