Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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).
