Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Diana Ross: Believe in yourself
“You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.” —Diana Ross.
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Katharine McPhee: Entirely preventable
“I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.” —Katharine McPhee.
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Al Pacino: Being famous
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.” —Al Pacino.
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Robert Lynd: History
“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.” —Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949) .
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Shirley Maclaine: Useless
“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” —Shirley Maclaine.
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Shirley Temple: ‘Your work makes them happy’
”When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said ‘We love you,’ she would dust it off by saying, ‘Your work makes them happy.’ She never let it go to my head.” —Shirley Temple.
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Montel Williams: Natural state
“People are beginning to realize that it’s important that we see animals in a natural state – but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don’t involve… performing for us.” —Montel Williams.
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Charlotte Bronte: Conscience
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”—Charlotte Bronte.
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Immanuel Kant: Immaturity
“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Room for belief
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Experience and theory
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Weigh them
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Evo Morales: The Earth has rights too
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.” —Evo Morales.
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Immanuel Kant: Universal law
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Tony Robbins: Action
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” —Tony Robbins.
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Tina Fey: Go down the chute
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”—Tina Fey.
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Adolf Hitler: Big enough lie
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” —Adolf Hitler.
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Maria Sharapova: Different
“I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.” —Maria Sharapova.
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Kourtney Kardashian: Ratings
“I don’t think anyone can fall in love for ratings.” —Kourtney Kardashian.
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Alice Walker: Intrinsic part
“Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.” —Alice Walker.
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Nikita Khrushchev: Wolves
“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” —Nikita Khrushchev.
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J K Rowling: Inexhaustible source of magic
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” —J.K. Rowling.
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Charlie Chaplin: Despair
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” —Charlie Chaplin.
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Maya Angelou: Through the brain to the heart
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” —Maya Angelou.
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Emma Watson: Embarrassing and confusing
“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me – dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me.” —Emma…
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Leonardo da Vinci: Smile in trouble
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” —Leonardo da Vinci.
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Margaret Atwood: Imperfect words
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” —Margaret Atwood.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Dogma of Mill
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Harper Lee: One which makes you think
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” —Harper Lee.
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Saadi: Not passion’s slaves
“They that with raging elephants make war/Are not, so deem the wise, the truly brave/But in real verity, the valiant are/ those who, when angered, are not passion’s slaves.” —Saadi.
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Saadi: Human pain
“Human beings are members of a whole/In creation of one essence and soul/If one member is afflicted with pain/Other members uneasy will remain/If you have no sympathy for human pain/The name of human you cannot retain.” —Saadi.
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Charlie Murphy: Glamorous
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” —Charlie Murphy, comedian.
