Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mark Ronson: Misquotes and wrong information
“I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.” —Mark Ronson.
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Ariel Winter: Don’t try to be funny
“With comedy, don’t try to be funny. That’s really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.” —Ariel Winter.
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Charlie Munger: Value investing
“All intelligent investing is value investing. You have to acquire more than you really pay for, and that’s a value judgment. But you can look for more than you’re paying for in a lot of different ways. You can use filters to sift the investment universe. And if you stick with stocks that can’t possibly…
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Warren Buffett: Wonderful business
“Generally speaking, I think if you’re sure enough about a business being wonderful, it’s more important to be certain about the business being a wonderful business than it is to be certain that the price is not 10 percent too high or 5 percent too high or something of the sort.” —Warren Buffett (1997).
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Warren Buffett: Great reluctance to sell
“We really have a great reluctance to sell businesses where we like both the business and the people. So I don’t think I’d count on seeing many sales. But if you ever attend a meeting here, and there are [holdings at] 60 or 70 times earnings, keep an eye on me…. You can really hold…
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Charlie Munger: Pretty high values
“If you’re right about the companies, you can hold them at pretty high values.” –Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Less risk
“There is less risk in owning three easy-to-identify, wonderful businesses than there is in owning 50 well-known, big businesses…. If you find three wonderful businesses in your life, you’ll get very rich.” —Warren Buffett.
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Pope Francis: Authentic communication
“It is not technology which determines whether or not communication is authentic, but rather the human heart and our capacity to use wisely the means at our disposal.” —Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis: Social networks
“Social networks can facilitate relationships and promote the good of society, but they can also lead to further polarisation and division between individuals and groups. The digital world is a public square, a meeting-place where we can either encourage or demean one another, engage in a meaningful discussion or unfair attacks.” —Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis: True compassion
“True compassion does not marginalise, humiliate or exclude, much less celebrate a patient passing away. You know well that would mean the triumph of selfishness, of that ‘throwaway culture’ that rejects and despises people who do not meet certain standards of health, beauty or usefulness.”
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G K Chesterton: Fairy tale
“The Fairy Tale accustoms a child for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there’s something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pico Iyer: Broken heart
“A broken heart, say the rabbis, is richer than a full one, because it still has room for the infinite.” —Pico Iyer.
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G K Chesterton: Courageous and denunciatory priest
“We have not enough people to abuse the abuses. We do not lack what corresponds to the corrupt monastery; we lack what corresponds to the courageous and denunciatory priest.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Scoundrels to curse
“It is not that we have not got enough scoundrels to curse; but that we have not got enough good men to curse them.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: The Devil
“The Devil is he who says he is God. That is, he is one who says that his functions are infinite and cannot be judged. Our present rulers are exactly marked by this secret omnipotence — this almost cosmic caprice.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Lust
“To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust. It may be an airy, philosophical, and disinterested lust; it may be, so to speak, a virgin lust; but it is lust, because it is wholly self-indulgent and invites no attack.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Feminism and chivalry
“Feminism is against chivalry; but chivalry will always be rather in favor of feminism.” —G K Chesterton.
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Romain Rolland: Be reverent
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. —Romain Rolland.
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Simon Sinek: Dreams
‘Dr. King gave the “I have a dream” speech, not the “I have a plan” speech. It’s our dreams that change the course of history.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Germaine Greer: Libraries
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” —Germaine Greer.
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Lady Gaga: Promoting insecurity
“I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.” —Lady Gaga.
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Dame Cicely Saunders: Because you are you
“You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” —Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of Hospice.
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Richard Fenigsen: Fundamental question
“The fundamental question about euthanasia: Whether it is a libertarian movement for human freedom and the right of choice, or an aggressive drive to exterminate the weak, the old, and the different, this question can now be answered. It is both.” —Richard Fenigsen, Dutch cardiologist.
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Pete Du Pont: Dreadful consequences
“From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.” —Pete Du Pont.
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire.
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Richard Paul Evans: Suffocate the present
“Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It’s like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.” —Richard Paul Evans.
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Jack Kevorkian: Certain cases
“Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.” —Jack Kevorkian.
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Kenneth Stevens: Reversal of proper role
“Assisted suicide is a reversal of the proper role of a doctor as a healer, comforter and consoler to an improper role of the physician causing a patient’s death.” —Kenneth Stevens.
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Andrew Coyne: No argument even against death
“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.” —Andrew Coyne.
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Michael Bassey Johnson: Unwanted people
“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.” —Michael Bassey Johnson.
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Chadwick Boseman: Experience change
“People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.” —Chadwick Boseman.
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Saint Francis de Sales: Perfectly
“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” —Saint Francis de Sales.
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Simon Sinek: Achievement and success
“Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of WHY we want it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pope John Paul II: Height of arbitrariness and injustice
“The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the…
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Pearl S Buck: Long, smooth-sounding word
“Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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G K Chesterton: Courage to live
“Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.” —G.K. Chesterton.
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Diane Coleman: Assisted suicide
“Assisted suicide will discriminate against the old, the ill and the disabled.” —Diane Coleman.
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Anthony Fisher: Palliative care
“Instead of employing euthanasia, we need to provide palliative care, showing the afflicted that they are loved and respected by our caring for them, not by saying, You would be better off dead.” —Anthony Fisher.
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Ramman Kenoun: Killing
“Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.” —Ramman Kenoun.
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Anthony Fisher: Morality of killing people
“It is a comfort to learn that there is still interest in the morality of killing people. For that is what euthanasia is – killing people. You can safely bet that every time euthanasia is successfully performed there is a corpse.” —Anthony Fisher.
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Stella Young: Murder
“The killing of a disabled person is not ‘compassionate’. It is not ‘euthanasia’. It is murder.” —Stella Young.
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Pope John Paul II: Legal toleration
“The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.” —Pope John Paul…
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Pope John Paul II: Suffering and desperate
“Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the quality of life itself.” —Pope John Paul II.
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Peter Singer: Slippery slope
“Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.” —Peter Singer.
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Dustin Hoffman: Legal in Hollywood
“Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn’t succeed immediately.” —Dustin Hoffman.
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Colette: Writers and authors
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954).
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Patricia Arquette: Pointing a weird gun
“For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.” —Patricia Arquette.
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Jason Bateman: Good work ethic
“In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you’re gonna impress the boss. You’re gonna get that promotion; you’re gonna get that raise. You’re gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you’re really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good…
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Kamala Harris: Make sure you’re not the last
“My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’” —Kamala Harris.
