Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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David Russell: Which bridge
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” – David Russell.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Further favors
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Tom Stoppard: Compound of two half-truths
“The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.” – Tom Stoppard.
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Friedrich von Schiller: Contend in vain
“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” —Friedrich von Schiller.
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Philip Johnson: How to waste space
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson.
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Westheimer’s Discovery: Coupla months in the laboratory
“A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.” – Westheimer’s Discovery.
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Joseph Sobran: No stable competing loyalty
“Without religion, the state faces no rival moral authority. Without property, freedom has no material basis, and everyone becomes dependent on the state for support. And without the family, the individual belongs almost wholly to the state, with no stable competing loyalty.” —Joseph Sobran.
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James Brown: Bring people joy just like church does
“When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.” —James Brown.
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Andy Cohen: Check yourself before you wreck yourself
“Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.” —Andy Cohen.
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Thomas A Kempis: Goodness of God
“If your heart were right, then every created thing would be a mirror of life for you and a book of holy teaching, for there is no creature so small and worthless that it does not show forth the goodness of God.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Too few capitalists
“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” —G K Chesterton.
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Audrey Hepburn: Tearing through a museum
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.” —Audrey Hepburn.
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Richard Jeni: Death and divorce
“It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!” —Richard Jeni.
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Roy M Cohn: Law and judges
“I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.” —Roy M. Cohn.
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Anonymous: Voicism
“Voicism: Discriminating or stereotyping a person because of the sound of their voice.” —Anonymous.
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Anonymous: Successful man and woman
“A successful man is one who can earn more money than his wife can possibly spend. A successful woman is one who can find that man.” —Anonymous.
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Muhammad Ali: Staying down that’s wrong
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Gerald Durrell: Half-educated
“I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.” —Gerald Durrell, naturalist and television presenter.
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Howard Baker: Cover-up
“It is almost always the cover-up than the event that causes trouble.” – Howard Baker.
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Mark Twain: Lonesome
“Be good and you will be lonesome.” –Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910).
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Benjamin Franklin: Minding what others say
“Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.
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Oscar Wilde: How you place the blame
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.” ~ Oscar Wilde.
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Harvey Ruben: Child who wants to play
“In every person is hidden a child who wants to play.” ~ Harvey Ruben.
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Benjamin Franklin: Praise her to her girl friends
“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Sister Miriam Joseph: Logic, grammar and rhetoric
“Because communication involves the simultaneous exercise of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, these three arts are the fundamental arts of education, of teaching, and of being taught. Accordingly, they must be practiced simultaneously by both teacher and pupil. The pupil must cooperate with the teacher; he must be active, not passive. The teacher may be present…
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Mark Nepo: Hardest thing I’ve learned
“The hardest thing I’ve learned, and still struggle with, is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.” —Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening.
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Pope Pius XI: Not to absorb the family or individual
“Now this end and object, the common welfare in the temporal order, consists in that peace and security in which families and individual citizens have the free exercise of their rights, and at the same time enjoy the greatest spiritual and temporal prosperity possible in this life, by the mutual union and co-ordination of the…
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Will Rogers: Being a hero
“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.” —Will Rogers.
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Winston Churchill: Never give in
“Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” —Winston Churchill.
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James Gordon: Ready to change or not
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” —James Gordon.
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King Whitney Jr: Considerable psychological impact
“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” —King Whitney Jr.
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Lynn Hall: More clearly ourselves
“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.” —Lynn Hall.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Universe is change
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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Martha Beck: Full-on metamorphosis
“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.” —Martha Beck.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Change your world
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Night watchman
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work-the night watchman.” —Tallulah Bankhead.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Absolute rejection of authority
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” –Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895).
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Curtis Jackson: You can’t buy respect in the ‘hood
“You can buy cars but you can’t buy respect in the ‘hood.” – Curtis Jackson.
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Nnamdi G Osuagwu: Treat people like mirrors
“Treat people like mirrors and watch how you reflect in their eyes.” —Nnamdi G. Osuagwu.
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C S Lewis: Worse than fiends
“Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends.” —C S Lewis.
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Shirish Kunder: Energy vampires
“Avoid people to whom you’ve to constantly justify yourself. They are energy vampires.” —Shirish Kunder.
