Jim Brandenburg Quotes

#1. Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.

Julia Morgan

#2. Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything.

William Branks

#3. The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Watts

#4. Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

Norm MacDonald

#5. Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.

Donald L. Hallstrom

#6. You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. The stars looked like nail heads in the sky
pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

Colum McCann

#8. The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Walid Jumblatt

#9. In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

George Herbert

#10. Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Stanley Crouch

#11. I have rare moments of competence.

Peter V. Brett

#12. I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

Blake Judd

#13. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca.

#14. Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Paul Ryan

#15. Not just the absence of sound, but positive, warm, burnished silence.

Jincy Willett