Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Deliberate pursuit of pleasure
“There is nothing more consciously dreary than the deliberate pursuit of pleasure.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ingrid Bergman: Lovely trick
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” —Ingrid Bergman.
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George O’Keeffe: Too momentary
“I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary.” —Georgia O’Keeffe, artist.
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G K Chesterton: Courage
“The basis of the artistic as of the ethical virtues is courage, and of courage there is only one certain and splendid signal — failure.” —G K Chesterton.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ignorance in action
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832).
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Cole Sprouse: Honest criticism
“If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you’re never going to improve.” —Cole Sprouse.
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Pauline Hanson: Get a job in the real world
“I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.” —Pauline Hanson.
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Kristin Cavallari: Headlines
“Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it’s not. Some people really only read headlines.” —Kristin Cavallari.
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C S Lewis: What mortals misunderstand
‘That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, “No future bliss can make up for it” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.’ —C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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C S Lewis: To help madmen
“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.” —C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own personal gain.” —Simon Sinek.
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Seneca: We steel ourselves
“No one learns to lie down contentedly in a bed of roses, if the need arises, but rather we steel ourselves for this: to not betray a confidence under torture, or to stand guard, though wounded, through the night if the need arises, without even leaning on an upright spear, since sleep has a way…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Nothing great accomplished without passion
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (27 Aug 1770-1831).
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John McCain: Character is destiny
“It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it.” — John McCain from his book Character is Destiny.
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C S Lewis: Silent
“I challenge the people I respect, but to those who show neither the capacity nor willingness to change, I am silent.” —C S Lewis.
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Julie Bishop: Tobacco companies
“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.” —Julie Bishop.
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Halsey: That’s you
“The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that’s you.” —Halsey.
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Shawn Mendes: If you wanna be a celebrity
“Someone was like, ‘If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.’ And I was like, ‘Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.’” —Shawn Mendes.
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Pope Francis: Crisscrossed by roads
“This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.” —Pope Francis.
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Kevin Smith: Simply be yourself
“Don’t let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.” —Kevin Smith.
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Jimmy Carter: Globalization
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” —Jimmy Carter.
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Beyonce: It happens
“The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens.” —Beyonce.
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Neil Simon: Take care of him
“Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.” —Neil Simon.
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C S Lewis: Look for Christ
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” —C S Lewis.
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Zach Burandt: Revelation
“Revelation is the element of the Christian life that takes the knowledge in your mind and translates it into an experience in your spirit.”- Zach Burandt.
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Steve Brown: Simply aren’t in the Bible
“If you’ve been a Christian very long, you may be wondering why I left out the guilt, the condemnation, and the promises to get better and better in every way, every day. I left them out because they simply aren’t in the Bible.” ― Steve Brown.
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Theodore Dreiser: The heart listens
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue…
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Yogi Berra: Losing
“Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.” — Yogi Berra.
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Mother Teresa: That missing drop
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” —Mother Teresa.
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Guillaume Apollinaire: Good to pause
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” —Guillaume Apollinaire.
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Morgan Housel: Wrong indefinitely without penalty
“Tell people what they want to hear and you can be wrong indefinitely without penalty.” —Morgan Housel.
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G K Chesterton: As local as possible
“What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Osborne: Criticism
“Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.” ~ John Osborne.
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G K Chesterton: Tyranny
“What it’s worth while to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it’s inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It is the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Equally stupid
“I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. While the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.” —G K…
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Azealia Banks: Extension
“When I rap, it’s just an extension of how I speak, and that’s how I talk. If you don’t like it, don’t listen.” —Azealia Banks.
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Kris Aquino: Don’t worry about tomorrow
“Don’t worry about tomorrow, let it fix itself. Today has a problem of its own.” —Kris Aquino.
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Leonard Bernstein: Music
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” —Leonard Bernstein.
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Robin Leach: Second train of thought
“When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they’re often not thinking. So I’m silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it’s the second train of thought that’s the better answer.” —Robin Leach.
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John McCain: Courage
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.” —John McCain.
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G K Chesterton: Christian Church
“The Christian Church is not made for good men, but for men.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Mark of foolishness
“An open mind is a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Great strength of Christian sanctity
“The great strength of Christian sanctity has always been simply this — that the worst enemies of the saints could not say of the saints anything worse than they said of themselves.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Human tyranny
“Human tyranny, like every other human sin, has generally some excuse or at least some temptation. It is the further difficulty that the excuse was often originally a respectable one; some devotion to institutions or ideals for which some men at least had really been grateful.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Villain of the story
“No story can ever end till we have found the villain of the story.” —G K Chesterton.
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Sean Connery: Particularly wrong
“I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don’t recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.” —Sean Connery.
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Thomas Paine: Trouble
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” —Thomas Paine, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.
