Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Joe Rogan: If you can lie
“If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.” —Joe Rogan.
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Andre Previn: Cold and analytical hearing
“When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one’s own music being played.” —Andre Previn.
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Nick Cannon: You have to be vigorous
“You have to be vigorous. That’s the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don’t take no for an answer.” —Nick Cannon.
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Greta Garbo: Conceals a toughness
“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.” —Greta Garbo.
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Luke Perry: Role model thing
“The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don’t think that’s fair.” —Luke Perry.
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Juan Gomez-Jurado: War that’s evil
“Armies are not bad things in themselves; it’s war that’s evil.” – Juan Gomez-Jurado.
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Jimmy Carter: Always an evil
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” – Jimmy Carter.
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Malcolm X: To put the gun down
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.” – Malcolm X.
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Ernest Hemingway: Crime
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway.
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Howard Zinn: Certain effect of war
“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.” – Howard Zinn.
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Carl Von Clausewitz: Continuation of state policy
“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.”– Carl Von Clausewitz.
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Edward Counsel: Severe doctor
“War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals grievances.” – Edward Counsel.
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Joseph Sobran: Greatest honor
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Simon Sinek: Probably not that important
“If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clive Sanders: Unless you’ve been a soldier
“Unless you’ve been a soldier, You just won’t understand. The things that we have seen and done, In the service of our land. We were trained to live in combat, And to deal with awful sights, That shouldn’t be seen by anyone And keep you awake at nights. We don’t discuss the wounds we have,…
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Benjamin Franklin: Valet de place
“I have long observed one rule which prevents any inconveniences from such practices. It is simply this: to be concerned in no affairs I should blush to have made public, and to do nothing but what spies may see and welcome. When a man’s actions are just and honorable, the more they are known, the…
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G K Chesterton: Modern Thought
“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Terrible truce
“That terrible truce in which the lion lies down with the lamb is a vision, not a daily rule. For natural purposes, we assert our family against our fellow-countrymen, our country against humanity, humanity against nature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Libido and ego
“For Luther sin is passion, for Catholicism sin is in the will — the act of choice. In Freudian terms Luther’s sin is libido, Catholic sin is ego.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Joseph Sobran: Remedial English
“In one hundred years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Pamela Adlon: Best and worst
“Everybody hates you when you’re the best, and everybody hates you when you’re the worst.” —Pamela Adlon.
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Emma Thompson: They’re kinder
“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.” —Emma Thompson.
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Peggy Noonan: Wit and humor
“Wit penetrates; humor envelopes. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.” — Peggy Noonan.
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Ogden Nash: There was a young man of Herne Bay
“There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.” —Ogden Nash.
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Louis Srygley: Art of adding bugs
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” – Louis Srygley.
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G K Chesterton: Refutation of a moral statement
“The refutation of a moral statement must be that it is immoral. And the energy with which we state it to be grossly, shamefully or shockingly immoral is but a measure of the actual psychological reaction against it, and part of the argument itself.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Chief objection to baby-killing
“Suppose I produced a defense of infanticide; I am sure comments would not err on the side of calm. But the point is that anger would be part of the argument. The immediate moral repulsion would be one of the objections to baby-killing; perhaps the chief objection to baby-killing.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Liking
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on – including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.” —C S Lewis.
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Marian Anderson: Fear
“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.” —Marian Anderson, singer (27 Feb 1897-1993).
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Mason Kaiser: I lost my llama
‘I lost my llama, so I called up my Mama, She said, “Stop your drama!” Look for the llama; are you sure it’s gone? Is it on the lawn? I checked there already. She gave up and said, “Talk to your dad”. I told my dad that I was sad. He just sounded mad when…
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John Piper: Prayerlessness
“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” —John Piper.
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Ariana Grande: Meditation
“Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.” —Ariana Grande.
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Zed A Shaw: Where there is none
“The lovely world with logic so firmly planted cannot discern the needs of love nor comprehend passion from intuition and requires an explanation where there is none.” —Zed A Shaw.
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Sir Edmund Hilary: Accomplish extraordinary things
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Sir Edmund Hilary.
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Shane Parrish: Key to learning
“Failure is more likely to trigger reflection than success. Reflection, not experience, is the key to learning.” —Shane Parrish.
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G K Chesterton: Absence of self-criticism
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Cohen: Positions and wives
“People change their positions all the time, the way they change their wives.” —Michael Cohen.
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Gwen Stefani: Two different worlds
“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.” —Gwen Stefani.
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Elizabeth Taylor: Pretty annoying virtues
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” —Elizabeth Taylor.
