Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Thomas Jefferson: Action
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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David Letterman: Worst tempered people
“The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.” —David Letterman.
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Coretta Scott King: Hate
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King.
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George Canning: Parents of failure
“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” —George Canning.
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Janelle Monae: Perfection, enemy of greatness
“Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” —Janelle Monae.
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Ram Gopal Verma: ‘Anti-Romeo squads’
“I am baffled with the name ‘Anti-Romeo squads’. How can Romeo, a revered lover, be a synonym for an eve-teasing goon?” —Ram Gopal Verma.
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Steven Seagal: High stakes
“It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.” —Steven Seagal.
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Gloria Steinem: Writing
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” —Gloria Steinem.
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Dennis Quaid: Break up
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.” —Dennis Quaid.
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Anne Rice: Risk making a fool of yourself
“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” —Anne Rice.
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Kofi Annan: To live is to choose
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” —Kofi Annan.
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Suzanne Collins: Reluctant reader
“One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.” Suzanne Collins
