Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mia Farrow: Suffering beyond description
”There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s important to understand that these people exist.” —Mia Farrow.
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Will Rogers: Diplomacy
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” —Will Rogers.
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Jules Verne: Esteemed enemy
”He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.” —Jules Verne.
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Bill Maher: Infantile fantasy land
”Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.” —Bill Maher, comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1956).
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Theodore Roosevelt: Most important servant
”The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely…
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Charles Dickens: Not in my nature
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” —Charles Dickens.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Compassion
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” — Ellen DeGeneres, comedian (b. 26 Jan 1958) .
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Akshay Kumar: Street fighting
“I used to do street fighting in Bangkok and sometimes I lost. But then you need to get up and start all over again and strive for a win. This is life. Fight for it and you will surely achieve your dreams.” —Akshay Kumar.
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Ronald Reagan: Feel the heat
”When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” —Ronald Reagan.
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Rabia Kapoor: Saddest thing in the world
“The saddest thing in the world is a woman who runs out of words, because words are a woman’s greatest weapon.” —Rabia Kapoor.
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George Bernard Shaw: Breeding
“The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Adlai Stevenson: Progress
”All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” —Adlai Stevenson.
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Lord Chesterfield: Pleasing people
“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.” —Lord Chesterfield.
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Natalie Imbruglia: Writing
”It’s much easier to write when you’re sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.” —Natalie Imbruglia.
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Sean O’Casey: Temper
“It’s my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.” —Sean O’Casey.
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Gertrude Stein: Always a pleasure
”One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.” —Gertrude Stein.
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Clarence Day: Information
“Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.” —Clarence Day.
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Ayn Rand: The question
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand.
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Clark Gable: Extra dividend
“It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.” —Clark Gable.
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Albert Schweitzer: Happiness and success
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” —Albert Schweitzer.
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Justin Timberlake: Gossip
”Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.” —Justin Timberlake.
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Carl Sagan: Science, a way of thinking
”Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers…
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Minnie Driver: So completely impossible
”I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.” —Minnie Driver.
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Paulo Coelho: New hello
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will award you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coelho.
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David Benioff: People who sleep easily
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” ― David Benioff, City of Thieves.
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Philip Mathew: Secret handbook
“Sometimes I think the Tatas have a secret handbook for hiring practices. Rarely have I met a Tata employee who is not professional, warm and courteous.” —Philip Mathew.
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Germaine Greer: Loneliness
”Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” —Germaine Greer.
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Jennifer Wiener: Not a tragedy
“Divorce isn’t such a tragedy.A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.” —Jennifer Wiener.
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Charles Stross: Smart economists study education
”There’s a saying that goes something like this: ‘Lieutenants study tactics, colonels study strategy, generals study logistics, and field marshals study economics.’ But economists—the smart ones—study education.” —Charles Stross.
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Adlai E Stevenson: Size of a man
”You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.” —Adlai E. Stevenson.
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Alan Perlis: Programming
”A language [or framework] that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” —Alan Perlis.
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Taiichi Ohno: Better ideas than mine
”You are a fool if you do just as I say. You are a greater fool if you don’t do as I say. You should think for yourself and come up with better ideas than mine.” —Taiichi Ohno.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Genius
”Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
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Judith Orloff: True chemistry
“I don’t care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn’t for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.” —Judith Orloff.
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Ray Kroc: Quality of a leader
”The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc.
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Paul Newman: Marriage
”People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.” —Paul Newman.
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Samuel Adams: Experienced patriots
”If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” — Samuel Adams, revolutionary (1722-1803) .
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Christian Beck: Designer learning
“Stop asking whether designers should code. Instead, ask what they should be learning.” –Christian Beck.
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Virginia Woolf: Truth telling
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Warren Buffett: Uncommonly resourceful
”Our experience has been that the manager of an already high-cost operation frequently is uncommonly resourceful in finding new ways to add to overhead, while the manager of a tightly-run operation usually continues to find additional methods to curtail costs, even when his costs are already well below those of his competitors.” -Warren Buffett, 1978 Letter…
