Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Garry Wills: All power is emergency power
“The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.” —Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
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Ellen Bass: Running from yourself
“Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama…you may be running from yourself.” —Ellen Bass,…
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Lemony Snickett: In an emergency
“In an emergency, one often learns that one’s companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.” —Lemony Snicket, Horseradish.
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G K Chesterton: Love creates beauty
“Beauty and the Beast deals with a very deep idea: that love creates beauty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Will Rogers: Right track
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers.
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Coomi Kapoor: Rules of the game
“The rules of the game are never changed till after the game is over.” —Coomi Kapoor, The Emergency: A Personal History.
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Coomi Kapoor: Cautiously
“The National Herald, founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, supported the Emergency throughout, and cautiously removed the quote ‘Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might’ from its masthead.” —Coomi Kapoor, The Emergency: A Personal History.
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Rachel Johnson: At the slightest slackening
“It’s very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.” —Rachel Johnson.
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Ken Jeong: All the tools in the world
“You can have all the tools in the world but if you don’t genuinely believe in yourself, it’s useless.” —Ken Jeong.
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John Donne: Any man’s death diminishes me
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” —John Donne.
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G K Chesterton: Free Lover
“It is perfectly obvious that the Free Lover is simply a person attempting the impossible idea of having a series of honeymoons and no marriage. He is building a long arcade consisting entirely of gates; with no house at the end of them.” —G K Chesterton.
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Andrew McCabe: No world
“There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.” —Andrew McCabe.
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Elton John: Hateful lemmings
“I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not…
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Susan B Anthony: Real milestones
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never…
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Regina King: Modern Mom
“A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.” —Regina King.
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Langston Hughes: 7 x 7
“7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 – love.” —Langston Hughes, poet, social activist and leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Simon Sinek: Offer strengths
“Offer our strengths to others and we will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bell Hooks: True love
“True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption.” —Bell Hooks.
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G K Chesterton: Luckiest
“Many a man has been lucky in marrying the woman he loves. But he is luckiest in loving the woman he marries.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Best definition of love
“The best definition of love I ever heard: giving someone the power to destroy you & trusting they won’t use it.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Happiness
“Happiness is not to be found by dancing after any heathen god of love; but by looking up to where a more terrible but a more tender god of love hangs, not on Olympus but on Calvary.” —G K Chesterton.
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Theodore Isaac Rubin: Happiness
“Happiness doesn’t come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” —Theodore Isaac Rubin.
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G K Chesterton: Romance
“Romance is the deepest thing in life; romance is deeper even than reality.” —G K Chesterton.
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Dilip Kumar: Fame
“If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become a nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.” —Dilip Kumar.
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Andy Cohen: Only option
“Sometimes, the only option is to say you’re sorry, even if you have no idea what someone is talking about.” —Andy Cohen, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year.
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Tamar Braxton: You gotta keep trying
“The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there’s opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don’t forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented.…
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Virginia Satir: Hugs
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” —Virginia Satir.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Act now, without delay
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Kevin Ngo: Priceless
“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Tide will turn
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Charlie Munger: Future opportunity cost
“Everything we do comes back to opportunity cost. But it, to some extent — in fact, to some considerable extent — we are guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warren is basically saying that he’s guessing that he’ll have opportunities in due course to put out money at pretty attractive rates of return, and therefore,…
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Warren Buffett: 10 percent or greater
“I will bet you that a lot of years in the future we, or you, will be able to find equities that you understand, or we understand, and that have the probability of returns at 10 percent or greater. Now, once you find a group of equities in that range, and leaving aside the problem…
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Yogi Berra: Careful
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” —Yogi Berra.
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Fr. Vincent McNabb: Better to be on the cross
“It is better to be on the Cross than looking at it.” —Fr. Vincent McNabb.
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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: When we love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho.
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G K Chesterton: Not absentminded
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Korda: Momentum
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” —Michael Korda.
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Michael Phelps: There are no limits
“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps.
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W Clement Stone: Aim for the moon
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” —W. Clement Stone.
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George Whitefield: Strive for the mark set before you
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield.
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George Herbert: Start where you stand
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert.
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Pauline Kael: Pry the door open
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” —Pauline Kael.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Believe in yourself
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Miriam Margolyes: Walk off the stage
“What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.” —Miriam Margolyes.
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Rachel Riley: Compliments
“It’s always flattering when you get compliments, but it’s more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.” —Rachel Riley.
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Madhubala: Shock so great
“It is true that one learns something from every experience but when the experience is evil, the shock is so great that one feels as though one can never recover from it.” —Manju Gupta, Madhubala: I don’t want to die….
