Leo Gordon famous quotes

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.
-- Leo Gordon

#Leadership #Perfect #Brain

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.
-- Leo Gordon

#Death #Believe #Grace

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.
-- Leo Gordon

#Life #Death #Thinking

A dead martyr is just another corpse.
-- Leo Gordon

#Hero #Idealism #Martyr

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.