Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Born drunk
“Americans are born drunk; and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mary Renault: Graft
“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” —Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983).
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Warren Buffett: Models
“It just stands to reason that you copy, very much, the people that you do look up to, and particularly if you do it at an early enough age. So I think, if you can influence the…role models of a 5-year-old or an 8-year-old or a 10-year-old…it’s going to have a huge impact. And of…
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C S Lewis: Hell
‘Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… It is not a question of God “sending us” to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud.’ —C S Lewis.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: True equality
“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jeremy Vine: Anger and negativity
“I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what’s going on inside them. So I don’t really mind it. There’s a lot of it online, there’s a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless.” —Jeremy Vine.
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Simon Sinek: Service
“The best leaders are those that understand the meaning of service, those who are willing to sacrifice for their own people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Chris Evans: Prep
“With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There’s no chance it won’t happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can’t…
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Nicki Minaj: Success
“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” —Nicki Minaj.
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Richard Wright: Books
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.” —Richard Wright.
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G K Chesterton: Only true free-thinker
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. ” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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Keanu Reeves: Energy
“Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.” —Keanu Reeves.
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Sarah Orne Jewett: Harbor
“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” —Sarah Orne Jewett, poet and novelist (3 Sep 1849-1909).
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C S Lewis: Holiest object
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” —C S Lewis.
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Cathy Newman: Can’t believe a word of it
“Look at a woman’s Wikipedia page and you can’t believe a word of it.” —Cathy Newman.
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Dakota Johnson: Freaks me out
“I’ve heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that’s great. But it freaks me out.” —Dakota Johnson.
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Lindsay Lohan: Remembered
“I want to be remembered for the work that I’ve done, rather than the car accidents that I’ve gotten into, the men that I’ve not dated — or the man that I have.” —Lindsay Lohan.
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Chiara Ferragni: You have to be passionate
“When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.” —Chiara Ferragni.
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Lara Spencer: Being on TV
“Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.” —Lara Spencer.
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Charlie Sheen: Mars research
“The Mars research has advanced my life in no capacity. How has it helped your life? Looks like Arizona, tastes like chicken. Billions of dollars. I think we should just blow it up and sniff it as it drifts past.” —Charlie Sheen.
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Simon Sinek: Work-life balance
“We will not have work-life balance until we feel safe in the place that we live and feel safe in the place that we work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emily Bronte: Sufficient company in himself
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” —Emily Bronte, novelist (30 Jul 1818-1848).
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Charles Bronson: Thousands of acquaintances
“I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.” —Charles Bronson.
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G K Chesterton: Political philosophy
“My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.” —G K Chesterton.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: If God is dead
“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Carl Gustave Jung: Fundamentally insoluble
“All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. They must be so, for they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” ~ Carl Gustave Jung.
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G K Chesterton: Feminism
“Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.” —G K Chesterton according to @GKCDaily.
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G K Chesterton: Standards of good
“The terrible danger in the heart of our Society is that the tests are giving way. We are altering, not the evils, but the standards of good by which alone evils can be detected and defined.” —G K Chesterton.
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Rachel Weisz: Therapy and analysis
“In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.” —Rachel Weisz.
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Tiffany Haddish: Almost true
“I learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh, they’ll do anything for you – which is almost true.” —Tiffany Haddish.
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Daniel Craig: Hilarious
“I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he’s hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.” —Daniel Craig.
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Bill Clinton: Work
“Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.” —William J. Clinton.
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Robbie Williams: Narcissist
“I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.” —Robbie…
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Ariana Grande: Extraordinarily judgmental
“Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.” —Ariana Grande.
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Keanu Reeves: Two different things
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” —Keanu Reeves.
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G K Chesterton: What he fancies he can get
“No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get.” – – – G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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G K Chesterton: Argument
“The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument is when you agree to differ.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Megaphone
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” —C S Lewis.
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Anne Hathaway: Goodness
“I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.” —Anne Hathaway.
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Princess Diana: Understanding
“I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.” —Princess Diana.
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Lily Tomlin: Rephrase the question
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” —Lily Tomlin.
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G K Chesterton: Furiously awake
“Men are never more awake to the good in the world than when they are furiously awake to the evil in the world.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Nothing but idealism
“An act can only be successful or unsuccessful when it is over; if it is to begin, it must be, in the abstract, right or wrong. There is no such thing as backing a winner; for he cannot be a winner when he is backed. There is no such thing as fighting on the winning…
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G K Chesterton: Premature burial
“The Church had learnt, not at the end but at the beginning of her centuries, that the funeral of God is always a premature burial.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Fallacies
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Debunking
‘A great many of those who “debunk” traditional or (as they would say) “sentimental” values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.’ —C S Lewis, The Abolition of Man.
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G K Chesterton: Howled down
“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” —G K Chesterton.
