Top 87 Quotes About Kurtz
#1. 'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
Tina Brown
#2. Man. I nearly burst into a laugh. 'Do you read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued
Joseph Conrad
#3. I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Johnny Depp
#4. Kurtz pulled the glove compartment open and handed a set of thermal-imaging goggles to Aleks. He pulled his own pair on over his face. "You get smarter every day: It's light outside, comrade space cadet.
Jack Silkstone
#5. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black
Joseph Conrad
#7. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'
Dylan Ratigan
#8. Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.
Paul Kurtz
#9. To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
Swoosie Kurtz
#10. No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.
Paul Kurtz
#11. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,
Glenn Kurtz
#12. Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.
Paul Kurtz
#13. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
Joseph Conrad
#14. How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.
Chris Kurtz
#15. No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.
Paul Kurtz
#16. Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.
Ernest Kurtz
#17. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.
Paul Kurtz
#18. If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.
Jane Kurtz
#19. A great yellow circle above the cornfield had slipped out from behind some clouds. The moon. It was the first moon Flora had ever seen. Her heart filled with the beauty of it, and she made a promise to herself. I will be prepared. And I won't live forever inside this pen.
Chris Kurtz
#20. Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.
Paul Kurtz
#21. Flora threw herself forward at the signal, and the men standing nearby cheered. Two of them ran alongside for a few steps, waving their hats. "Go, pig! Pull, pig!
Chris Kurtz
#22. I think these are terrible times to be anything in.
Swoosie Kurtz
#23. This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.
Chris Kurtz
#24. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#25. That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.
Katherine Kurtz
#26. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
#27. I try to tell myself I'm not schizophrenic. But when I'm not acting, I'm not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I'm more focused, more interesting when I'm working.
Swoosie Kurtz
#29. It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.
Swoosie Kurtz
#30. Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#31. The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.
Paul Kurtz
#32. You don't have to look for trouble. It will find you. And when that happens"--Luna disappeared, but her voice continued--"keep up that great spirit and make a plan, because nine lives is just a state of mind.
Chris Kurtz
#33. Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
Paul Kurtz
#35. Keep track of your soul, Madison. Never compromise. Or you'll live the rest of your life regretting it--until it consumes you.
B.J. Kurtz
#36. There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.
Howard Kurtz
#37. But that night in her dream she flew high above the earth in a moonless sky. Behind her, like a falling star, sailed a silver sled.
Chris Kurtz
#38. Nobody gets everything they want. There will always be something. New problems arise. Instead of striving for perfection, strive for contentedness. Find a way to be happy what you already have & you'll always have exactly what you need.
Adam J. Kurtz
#39. In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.
Howard Kurtz
#40. I wanted to tell you something, she says, but it slipped under a chair.
Swoosie Kurtz
#41. We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
Paul Kurtz
#42. Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
Paul Kurtz
#43. It's so funny whenever things come full circle.
Swoosie Kurtz
#44. I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!
Swoosie Kurtz
#45. Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#46. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.
Paul Kurtz
#47. Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.
Ernest Kurtz
#48. Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters - what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability - is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.
Glenn Kurtz
#49. Dogs don't hold back. They see something they want and go after it. No matter what obstacles get in the way, the sheer act of chasing becomes the reward in and of itself.
Gila Kurtz
#50. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.
Gary Kurtz
#51. I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be
Chris Kurtz
#52. Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.
Ron Kurtz
#53. Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.
Paul Kurtz
#55. The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
Swoosie Kurtz
#56. Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.
John Kurtz
#57. I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.
Swoosie Kurtz
#58. There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.
Don Kurtz
#59. I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.
Swoosie Kurtz
#60. Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.
John Kurtz
#61. The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.
John Kurtz
#62. The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.
Howard Kurtz
#63. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.
Chris Kurtz
#64. Artists never seem to get bored with life.
John Kurtz
#65. Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
Swoosie Kurtz
#66. How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?
John Kurtz
#67. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.
Ernest Kurtz
#68. The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.
Paul Kurtz
#69. Son, you never know who will step up with the brains and talent in a time of need and be the right one for the job.
Chris Kurtz
#70. Our Holy Father ... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we need to do this in a way that the Holy Father says is creative. We need to do it in a way that we look for new strategies that address the hearts of people.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#71. The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.
Paul Kurtz
#72. Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
Paul Kurtz
#73. The stars were extra bright tonight, and they shone and glimmered as if each one had something it wanted to say.
Chris Kurtz
#74. You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures."
Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.
Chris Kurtz
#75. [A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.
Ernest Kurtz
#76. Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
Paul Kurtz
#77. Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
Howard Kurtz
#78. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze.
Joseph Conrad
#79. Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up.
Chris Kurtz
#80. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
Paul Kurtz
#81. Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children ... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.
Paul Kurtz
#82. I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
Swoosie Kurtz
#83. To make Hakomi effective a practitioner must be more than just someone who knows a method. The practitioner must be someone whose very presence can be healing, a person who has all the qualities needed to support emotional healing in another.
Ron Kurtz
#84. Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it.
Glenn Kurtz
#85. She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt.
Chris Kurtz
#86. I used to be a fool ... A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn.
Chris Kurtz
#87. Cats are good at keeping clean [ ... ] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?
Chris Kurtz
