Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: Free to be good or bad
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Bellyful
“What good is it having a belly if there’s no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Flannery O’Connor: Truth does not change
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” —Flannery O’Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964).
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Dr. Dre: No matter how hard
“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there’s someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.” —Dr. Dre.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Streetlight imaginations
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Zelda Dvoretzky: Slavish obeisance
“There’s a danger in slavish obeisance: Too much homage can lead to complacence. Though they bow, genuflect, show you every respect, someday people will run out of patience.” —Zelda Dvoretzky.
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Theresa May: Poverty
“Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it’s about work.” —Theresa May.
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Kathy Griffin: Celebrity culture
“The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can’t seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it’s my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.” —Kathy Griffin.
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Gloria Steinem: Fish without a bicycle
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” —Gloria Steinem.
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Florence Luscomb: Walking down a high-walled lane
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and…
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Dan Rockwell: Make a small difference today
“Arrogance needs big wins. Humility is thankful to serve. Forget about reaching the final goal. Execute your best plan today. Make a small difference today, if you hope to make a big difference tomorrow.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Shatrughan Sinha: I am careful
“I am a one woman man, at a time. You either have to be good or be careful; I am careful.” —Shatrughan Sinha.
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Shatrughan Sinha: Power and glamour
“Actors turn to politics because they think movies have glamour but limited power but politics has power and unlimited glamour.” —Shatrughan Sinha.
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John C Maxwell: Act the part
“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.” – John C. Maxwell.
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G K Chesterton: Nationalism
“Nationalism is the consciousness of nationality; and the consciousness of nationality comes from the constant consciousness of danger.” —G K Chesterton.
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Albert Camus: Happiness
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” – Albert Camus.
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George Gissing: Money is time
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.” —George Gissing.
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Carol Vorderman: Female presenters
“How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.” —Carol Vorderman.
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Uri Geller: Contraceptive coil
“I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.” —Uri Geller.
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Rachel Maddow: Feminism
“Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better…
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Steve Young: Self improvement
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” —Steve Young.
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Heather Sellers: Becoming a writer
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.” ~ Heather Sellers.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Depravity
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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G K Chesterton: False idealism
“There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” —G K Chesterton.
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David Suzuki: Skepticism
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” —David Suzuki.
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Helen Garner: Revolution begins in the kitchen
“Revolution begins in the kitchen.” —Helen Garner, writer, from “Other People’s Children”.
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Jacinda Ardern: Left by yourself
“If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.” —Jacinda Ardern.
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Taapsee Pannu: Lazy person
“I’m a lazy person, so I refrain from lying because I’d forget what story I’d cooked up before.” —Taapsee Pannu.
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Warren Buffett: Low-probability events
“People tend to underestimate low-probability events when they haven’t happened recently and overestimate them when they have happened recently. That is the nature of the human animal. You know, Noah ran into that some years back. But he looked pretty good after 40 days…. We believe almost anything can happen in financial markets. And the…
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Bob Marley: She trusts you
“When a woman tells you about her problems, that doesn’t mean she’s complaining. It just means she trusts you.” —Bob Marley.
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Joe Henderson: Persistence and experience
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.” —Joe Henderson.
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Warren Buffett: Beauty about investments
“That’s the beauty about investments. You only have to look at the ones that you feel capable of evaluating and you skip all rest.” —Warren Buffett.
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Caroline Sheridan Norton: Serve his creatures
“They serve God well, who serve his creatures.” —Caroline Sheridan Norton.
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Sam Brown: With substance
“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” – Sam Brown.
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Nizar Qabbani: Souls in stone age
“Our shouting is louder than our actions, / Our swords are taller than us, / This is our tragedy. / In short / We wear the cape of civilization / But our souls live in the stone age.” -Nizar Qabbani, poet and diplomat (21 Mar 1923-1998).
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Fred Raymond: Expert judgment
“Expert judgment is typically the crux of cost and schedule estimates but in the spectrum of the risk management process, quantification of expert judgment is the weakest area.” – Fred Raymond.
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Timothy Dalton: Only after a struggle
“You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” Timothy Dalton.
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Sophie Turner: Dresses
“Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.” – – – Sophie Turner.
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David Letterman: Traffic signals in New York
“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.” —David Letterman.
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Earl Warren: Sports pages first
“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.” —Earl Warren.
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G K Chesterton: Easy to be a madman
“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own.” —G K Chesterton.
