Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Harper Lee: Conscience
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Real courage
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Point of view
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Luc de Clapiers: Sweet to order
“There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order.” —Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (6 Aug 1715-1747) .
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Garrison Keillor: Shallow life
“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.” —Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (b. 7 Aug 1942) .
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Andrew Sullivan: Insecure faith
“I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten me or my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?” —Andrew Sullivan, author and editor (b. 10 Aug 1963) .
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Gulzar: Dreams
Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time. -Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18 Aug 1934)
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Green Ingersoll: Eternity
“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” —Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899) .
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Roberts Rinehart: Murderous hatred
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.” —Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (12 Aug 1876-1958) .
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Felix Adler: Supreme Ethical Rule
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” —Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (13 Aug 1851-1933) .
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Russell Baker: Television’s basic American education
“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. … From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.” —Russell…
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Jarod Kintz: Losing your mind
“Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE.
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Ogden Nash: Bigoted mind
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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Aristotle: Good man, good citizen
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Herta Müller: Love’s real secret
The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse. -Herta Müller, novelist, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 17 Aug 1953)
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Edgar Guest: Walking sermon
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. -Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)
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Jorge Luis Borges: Fallible god
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (24 Aug 1899-1986)
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Peter Lynch: Markets
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, you won’t do well in the markets.” ~Peter Lynch.
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Sunny Leone: Q & A
“I don’t believe in yelling or name calling. Instead, I wait till the other person is done and then answer to the best of my ability.” —Sunny Leone.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faithful service
“Not the makers of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Henry D Thoreau: Enterprising citizen
“If you walk in the woods for love of them … you could be regarded as a loafer. But if you … shear off those woods and make the earth bald … you are deemed an … enterprising citizen.” ~Henry D Thoreau.
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Mahesh Bhatt: No pattern
“If there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The key insight is that we are living in a time of chaos!” ~Mahesh Bhatt.
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Walt Kelly: Us, the enemy
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” —Walt Kelly, cartoonist (25 Aug 1913-1973).
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WB Yeats: Man’s glory
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends.” ~WB Yeats.
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George Eliot: Less difficult
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ~George Eliot.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Enduring force
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Robin Williams: Cocaine
“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.” ~Robin Williams.
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Jack Kerouac: Nature
“Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. Let men work and love and fight it off.” ~Jack Kerouac.
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Alanis Morissette: Perfect
“We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.” ~Alanis Morissette.
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Sri Aurobindo: Yoga
“The practice of yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.” —Sri Aurobindo.
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John Allen Paulos: Numerator and denominator
“There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.” ~John Allen Paulos.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Justice
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Queer mixture
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.” —Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri: Simplicity
“I am not as simple as I look.” —Lal Bahadur Shastri. Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: My mind
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Marcel Proust: Discovery
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust.
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Katrina Kaif: Love
“In love, opposition comes from either outside force or the person you are in love with. Every relationship and love story has its own conflicts. Sometimes it can be conflict of third party, of being afraid of commitment, therein being so many conflicts.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Audre Lorde: Differences
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~Audre Lorde.
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Len Deighton: Air conditioner
“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well.” ~Len Deighton.
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Herman Melvillle: Good dinner
“If you can get nothing better of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.” ~Herman Melville.
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Helen Keller: Sun and shadow
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” ~Helen Keller.
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Plato: Specialization
“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.” ~Plato.
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Guy de Maupassant: Government’s duty
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” —Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893).
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George Clooney: Organ donation
“I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a large way.” ~George Clooney.
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Washington Irving: Misfortune
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.” — Washington Irving, writer, historian and diplomat.
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P.D. James: Not by the self-regarding
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” —P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014).
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Divine religion
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (4 Aug 1792-1822).
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John Lennon: System’s game of violence
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle…
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Samuel Johnson: Wine
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.” ~Samuel Johnson.
