Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Chelsea Manning: Solitary confinement
“You start to forget about the world outside — it’s not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians – and all the things that make up a society.” —Chelsea Manning.
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Alec Baldwin: Visual medium
“Let’s face facts, this is a visual medium, there’s a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don’t make a career out of that anymore as an actor.” —Alec Baldwin.
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Eminem: Backstabbers
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” —Eminem.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Be your own parent
“When you don’t have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.” —Jennifer Lawrence.
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Eminem: Backstabbers
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” —Eminem.
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Wiz Khalifa: Thinking about someone
“Sometimes we waste too much time thinking about someone who doesn’t even think about us for a second.” — Wiz Khalifa.
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Peter Corris: Memory of a cigarette
“It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.” —Peter Corris.
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Ronald Reagan: Middle-age
“Middle-age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose one that will get you home at nine o’clock.” — Ronald Reagan.
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Sarah Palin: Change and careers
“In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.” —Sarah Palin.
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G K Chesterton: Scoundrels
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Science and common-sense
“It often happens that science arrives eventually at a truth which common-sense has discovered without its aid a long time before.” —G K Chesterton.
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Queen Raina of Jordan: Essence and values
“I’d rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I’m just Mom. At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.” —Queen Raina of Jordan.
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John McCain: In prison
“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how…
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John McCain: Glory
“Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you. ” —John McCain.
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John McCain: Love your life
“Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.” —John McCain.
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John McCain: Only in yourself
“If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.” —John McCain.
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John McCain: Americans first, Americans last, Americans always
“We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always. Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy, and take courage from the knowledge that our military superiority is matched only by the superiority of our ideals, and our unconquerable love for them.” —John McCain.
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G K Chesterton: Most singular fancy
“There has arisen in our time a most singular fancy: the fancy that when things go very wrong we need a practical man. It would be far truer to say, that when things go very wrong we need an unpractical man. Certainly, at least, we need a theorist. A practical man means a man accustomed…
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Charlie Munger: We read a lot
“We read a lot. I don’t know anyone who’s wise who doesn’t read a lot. But that’s not enough: You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.” — Charles Munger.
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G K Chesterton: Two kinds of people
“In truth there are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don’t know it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Pleasant inns
“Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.” —C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
