Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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G K Chesterton: Real pessimist
“The real pessimist is not he who is weary of evil, but he who is weary of good.” —G K Chesterton.
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Freddie Mercury: Simply grew and grew
“In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.” —Freddie Mercury.
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Simon Cowell: Social networking is brilliant
“For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it’s doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It’s amazing. And it’s free. I love it.…
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Gene Simmons: Only job kids have
“The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.” —Gene Simmons.
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Martha McSally: I don’t think so. I would hope not
“If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, ‘It’s just a cultural thing’? I don’t think so. I would hope not.” —Martha McSally.
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Meghan McCain: No matter how many roller coasters
‘As much as the Republicans try to paint Democrats as desiring some Marxist utopia, this place is basically that. Just replace the word “comrade” with “Christian.” There’s nothing wrong with either dream, I suppose, but that’s all they are. Utopias don’t exist in real life, regardless of their political or religious leanings, no matter how…
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Warren Buffett: Wild things
“We generally believe you can just see anything in markets. I mean, it’s just extraordinary what happens in markets over time. It gets sorted out eventually, but we have seen companies sell for tens of billion dollars that are worthless. And at times, we have seen things sell for…literally 20 percent or 25 percent of…
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G K Chesterton: Next great heresy
“The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially sexual morality.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Confessional-box
“As a matter of fact, a confessional-box bears the same relation to confession that a bathing-machine bears to bathing; it makes it slightly safer and more decorous. As bathing would exist everywhere if there were no machines, so confession would exist if there were no boxes.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Catholicism and Protestantism
“Catholicism and Protestantism are two moral and intellectual forces standing for tendencies that are as old as life and equally worth living.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: No more dignified
“A man running after salvation can no more be dignified than a man running after his hat.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bobbie Gentry: Euphemism
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.” —Bobbie Gentry, singer and songwriter (b. 27 Jul 1944).
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr: Mind of a bigot
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (29 Aug 1809-1894).
