Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: Jesus Christ did not say
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right’.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Arguing versus quarrelling
“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Hilton: Mistakes
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.” —James Hilton.
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Herman Melville: Chosen vehicle
“A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.” —Herman Melville, writer.
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Piers Morgan: Horses in a pasture
“Don’t chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don’t go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.” —Piers Morgan.
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C S Lewis: Safest road to hell
“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing…the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones…” —C S Lewis.
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Robbie Williams: People change
“People change. I wouldn’t like to be accountable for the interviews I’ve done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.” —Robbie Williams.
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Boris Johnson: Ping-pong
“Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an…
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Anna Kendrick: Chess game
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Emma Thompson: Most wonderful audiences
“Children are the most wonderful audiences. What’s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.” —Emma Thompson.
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Paul McCartney: Wedding bells
“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.” —Paul McCartney.
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Elon Musk: Extraordinary
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” —Elon Musk.
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Alexander Mackendrick: Better actors than adults
“Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.” —Alexander Mackendrick.
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G K Chesterton: History
“History does not consist of completed and crumbling ruins; rather it consists of half-built villas abandoned by a bankrupt-builder. This world is more like an unfinished suburb than a deserted cemetery.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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C S Lewis: Blurred
“The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred. ” —C S Lewis.
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Confucius: Moral courage
“To shirk your duty when you see it before you shows want of moral courage.” —Confucius, philosopher and teacher.
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G K Chesterton: Christianity
“If Christianity should happen to be true, then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ryan Reynolds: Voyeur of own life
“There’s a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself – where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It’s kind of crazy.” —Ryan…
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Lauryn Hill: Resentment and unforgiveness
“I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn’t forgive others.” —Lauryn Hill.
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Edith Sitwell: Patient with stupidity
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” —Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964).
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Kate Beckinsale: Complete madness
“I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.” —Kate Beckinsale.
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G K Chesterton: Fairy tales
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What they give the child is his first clear idea of the defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”…
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Dolores O’Riordan: Empty hole
“People look at you and see a product. They don’t see a soul. They see an empty hole.” —Dolores O’Riordan.
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C S Lewis: Free will
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love. ” ~CS Lewis.
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Burt Reynolds: Marriage
“Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.” —Burt Reynolds.
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G K Chesterton: Undesirable
“It has always seemed to me as undesirable to have anonymous articles in public life as anonymous letters in private life.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Christian ideal
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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Rose McGowan: Pre-Twitter
“It’s nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, ‘What was it like to work for this man?’” —Rose McGowan.
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Olivia Culpo: No ideal body
“There is no ideal body. It’s just taking what you have and working it.” —Olivia Culpo.
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Tom Ford: Compelled to achieve
“I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they’ve achieved… I think the moment you get to a place when you think ‘Oh I’m a fashion legend’ then that’s when you’re no longer competitive in your field.” —Tom Ford.
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Germaine Greer: Very little idea
“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.” —Germaine Greer.
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Jim Jefferies: Crazy people
“The thing about crazy people; they don’t know they are crazy, that’s what make them crazy.” —Jim Jefferies.
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Robert M Pirsig: Fanatically dedicated
“When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” —Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (6 Sep 1928-2017).
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G K Chesterton: Preaching to the converted
“I believe in preaching to the converted; for I found that the converted do not understand their own religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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Sir Malcolm Bradbury: Everything they do
‘Why is it that married people always say “Come in” when everything they do says “Get out”.’ —Sir Malcolm Bradbury.
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G K Chesterton: Lost causes
“The task of modern idealists indeed is made much too easy for them by the fact that they are always taught that if a thing has been defeated it has been disproved. Logically, the case is quite clearly the other way. The lost causes are exactly those which might have saved the world.” —G K…
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Remember it
“Be silent, if you choose; but when necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician.
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C S Lewis: Same direction
“It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up –– painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Family
“The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marcus Aurelius: Impediment to action
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Good friends
“Good friends make us better people. They cheer us on when we hit bottom and keep us humble when we reach the top.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jon Kyl: Real leadership
“Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.” —Jon Kyl.
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Graham Yost: Corner
“If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.” —Graham Yost.
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Marie de France: Love and equality
“Love is not honorable unless it is based on equality.” —Marie de France, poet.
