Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kerry Katona: Another way to fly
“A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people.” — Kerry Katona.
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Jennifer Hudson Taylor: Love is as hard to hide as hate
“Love is as hard to hide as hate.” —Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Highland Blessings.
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Tiger Shroff: Stuntmen
“Stuntmen don’t have a lavish life. They are such hard working people, but not respected enough. And I don’t like that. If I become something in my life, I want to give them a better life, take them to a higher level.” —Tiger Shroff.
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Amber Heard: Different standards
“I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.” —Amber Heard.
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John Wayne: Black and white
‘If everything isn’t black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?”‘ —John Wayne.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Either be hot or cold
“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.” —Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Arnold Newman: Better photographs
“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.” —Arnold Newman.
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Marcus Aurelius: Ambition and sanity
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do…Sanity means tying it to your own actions.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Ryōkan: By not knowing
“The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind; The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind. The flower opens, the butterfly comes; The butterfly comes, the flower opens. I don’t know others, Others don’t know me. By not-knowing we follow nature’s course. — Ryōkan.
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Lou Brock: Afraid to look bad
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” —Lou Brock.
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Jessie Buckley: Ability to be dangerous
“We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.” —Jessie Buckley.
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Raymond Chandler: Down these mean streets
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct,…
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Kate Beckinsale: Underdog
“Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one’s being nice enough to me!” – —Kate Beckinsale.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: On my own accord
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” —Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Bruno Mars: It’s just all love
“It’s just all love. That’s what music is. That’s why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That’s what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully…
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Hillaire Belloc: Men will learn eventually
“Men will learn eventually, and if they insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience.” —Hillaire Belloc.
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Jared Kushner: Things that are really permanent
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that’s really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.” —Jared Kushner.
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Katherine Helmond: Catholic school
“I went to Catholic school. Do as you’re told; don’t ask questions and you will be illuminated.” —Katherine Helmond. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/katherine_helmond_522985
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Dr. Seuss: How did it get so late soon?
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” —Dr. Seuss.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: You haven’t done much today
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” —Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Marcus Aurelius: Discard your misperceptions
“Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Tzvetan Todorov: Certainties of people
“We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.” —Tzvetan Todorov, philosopher (1 Mar 1939-2017).
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Warren Buffett: We regard that as nonsense
“Prices do amazing things in securities markets. And when they do something that strikes us as amazing in our direction…we will act. But we do not know today what we’re going to be doing tomorrow…. And there’s this business where somebody says, ‘You should have 50 percent of your money in bonds and 35 percent…
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Lionel Shriver: Already a little bit good
“You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.” —Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu: Experience
“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.” —Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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Liam Hemsworth: Tomorrow doesn’t exist
“Tomorrow doesn’t exist, yesterday is gone. The more I remind myself of that, the stronger I feel.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Negotiations
“You can’t end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can’t begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.” —Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Mike Willesee: Lost sight of the ball
“If you think about yourself then you’ve lost sight of the ball.” —Mike Willesee.
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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,…
