H. W. Brands Quotes

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I never do the same thing twice.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny gesture could deny it. One footprint, one atom. You didn't have to be a genius. You didn't even have to know that was what you were doing. You made a mark. You changed something. It said, "A human being passed here." And changed zero to one.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.