Author: LINUS FERNANDES
-
Michel Ney: Prodigies of valour
“It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.” —Michel Ney.
-
Sylvester Stallone: Rejection
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone.
-
James McAvoy: Bad excuse
“Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.” —James McAvoy.
-
Rita Ora: Long-distance relationships
“I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It’s an incredible achievement. I couldn’t do it.” —Rita Ora.
-
Irina Shayk: Madagascar
“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet…
-
Sam Newman: Bridge building
“If bridge building were like programming, halfway through we’d find out that the far bank was now 50 meters farther out, that it was actually mud rather than granite, and that rather than building a footbridge we were instead building a road bridge.” —Sam Newman, Building Microservices.
-
Emily Blunt: Immediacy to this day and age
“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.” —Emily Blunt.
-
Charles T Munger: Deserve what you want
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” —Charles T. Munger.
-
Howard Schultz: Passionate commitment
“When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.” —Howard Schultz.
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mediocre talent
“A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician (27 Jan 1756-1791).
-
Amanda Seales: Flawless
“You’re flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don’t necessarily like, but you own them because they’re yours.” —Amanda Seales.
-
Willie Brown: Truth within 24 hours
“In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” —Willie Brown.
-
Wilbur Ross: Mexico has better treaties
“Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the United States does.” —Wilbur Ross.
-
Alan Alda: Challenging your own assumptions
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda.
-
Simon Sinek: Not everyone will like us
“If we want to achieve anything in this world, we have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like us.” —Simon Sinek.
-
Henry Kissinger: Absolutely certain about something
“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.” — Henry Kissinger.
-
Rosamund Pike: Uniquely qualified
“Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified.” —Rosamund Pike.
-
G K Chesterton: Behind the times
“It must be remembered that the Church is always in advance of the world. That is why it is said to be behind the times.” —G K Chesterton.
-
G K Chesterton: Manifest and raving nonsense
‘If the novel maxim “religion is a private matter” means that the conviction held in the soul cannot be applied to the society, it means manifest and raving nonsense.’ —G K Chesterton.
-
G K Chesterton: New religion
“Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions.” —G K Chesterton.
-
Uzodinma Iweala: Six million
“When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It’s only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.” —Uzodinma Iweala.
-
G K Chesterton: Exhilaration of a vice
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.” —G K Chesterton.
-
Germaine Greer: Continual apology
“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.” —Germaine Greer.
-
Ann Coulter: Slightly higher than vegetation
“Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn’t the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation?” – Ann Coulter.
-
Mike Huckabee: No process of justice
“Some wonder how a person so pro-life as me could accept the law of a death penalty. But a death sentence is a result of a lengthy and thorough judicial process applied to a person deemed guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s far different from one person singularly deciding to end the life of a…
-
John Piper: God as our supreme love
“The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion – a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in…
-
Alan Keyes: Stand on abortion
“I frankly don’t care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.” – Alan Keyes.
-
Chuck Baldwin: National holocaust
“Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.” —Chuck Baldwin.
-
Wendy Wright: More clients for abortion clinics
“If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It’s encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.” —Wendy Wright.
-
Francis Schaeffer: Serious about stopping abortion
“State officials must know that we are serious about stopping abortion, which is a matter of clear principle concerning the babies themselves and concerning a high view of human life.” —Francis Schaeffer.
-
Shelton Smith: Still just as wrong today
“Just because Congress passes a law and says it’s all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it’s all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973.” —Shelton Smith.
-
Wendy Wright: Morning-after pill
“Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple uses — if a woman uses it more than once.” —Wendy Wright.
-
Francis Schaeffer: Abominable abortion law
“Certainly every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable abortion law. But as we work and pray, we should have in mind not only this important issue as though it stood alone. Rather, we should be struggling and praying that this whole other total entity ‘(this godless) worldview’ can be rolled…
-
Mike Huckabee: Life begins at conception
“But I’m pro-life because I believe life begins at conception, and I believe that we should do everything possible to protect that life because it is the centerpiece of what makes us unique as an American people.” – Mike Huckabee.
-
Rick Warren: Murder and abortion are wrong
“The Bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.” —Rick Warren.
-
Alan Keyes: No right to abortion
“If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.” —Alan Keyes.
-
Ed Cole: Consequences of immorality
“Abortion is too often an atonement for the consequences of immorality, the sins of the parents.” —Ed Cole.
-
John Piper: Opposite of abortion
“Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.” —John Piper.
-
John Piper: Every four days
“The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.” —John Piper.
-
Chuck Baldwin: Murdered in the womb
“How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?” —Chuck Baldwin.
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Silence between
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
-
Moliere: Slow to grow
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” —-Moliere, actor and playwright (15 Jan 1622-1673.
-
John Piper: Subtle infanticide
‘One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don’t recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. “Abortion” is cloaked child-killinig. ‘ —John Piper.
-
Murakami: What everyone else is thinking
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Murakami.
-
Kenneth Branagh: People you’re most cruel to
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.” —Kenneth Branagh.
-
Judi Dench: Feet planted firmly on the ground
“I think you’ve got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.” —Judi Dench.
-
Russell Lynes: No author
“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.” ~ Russell Lynes.
