Coronel Kurtz Quotes

#1. Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

#2. The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Helen Rowland

#3. I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Lasse Hallstrom

#4. You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Robeson

#5. The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

James Thurber

#6. I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

Fiona Apple

#7. All success comes down to this . . . action

Rob Liano

#8. We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#9. In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

Mimi Kennedy

#10. Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods ...

Kevin Hearne

#11. Chicken is chicken no matter how you say it.

Eduardo

#12. Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Alice Hoffman