H. W. Brands Quotes

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

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• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Why
  • Bad

• Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• 'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Guy
  • King

• Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Important
  • Period

• Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • War
  • True

• Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.

  

  Ovid

• In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way.

  

  Patrick White
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire

• Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Sleep

• Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Stupid

• It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

  

  Jay Parini

• The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

  

  Alma Gluck
  • Art
  • Song
  • Green

• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • World
  • Compassion

• I have a really hard time watching gory stuff and horror movies. I have said no to some horror movie things. I wouldn't rule it out; I could probably be convinced to do one. But sometimes, I just get ill.

  

  Marin Ireland
  • Time
  • Movie

• We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Respect

• I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Life
  • Time

• Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • World
  • Today
  • Improvement

• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Account
  • Absurdity
  • Nature Reason

• I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Business
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Good
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Men
  • Shiloh