Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Amelia Earhart: Flying awards
“So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.” —Amelia Earhart (1897-1937).
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Hart Crane: Drenched in words
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. “ —Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932).
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Anushka Sharma: Loyalty
“In India, whether it is cricket or anything else that India loves a lot, be it your husband who first beats you at night and then in the morning claims to love you, that’s really the relationship that people have. But that’s not love. If you talk about sportsmanship and when people say that this…
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. ” —Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
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Albert Einstein: Opportunity
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Anatole France: Books
“Never lend books — nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924).
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Clint Eastwood: Respect
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” ~Clint Eastwood. Embed from Getty Images
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Joseph Addison: Obscurely good
“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.” —Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719). Embed from Getty Images
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Francis de Sales: New tie
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” — Francis de Sales,bishop.
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Nelson Mandela: Success
Embed from Getty Images “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” ~Nelson Mandela.
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Rodney Dangerfield: Ridiculous
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous—everyone hasn’t met me yet.” ~Rodney Dangerfield. Embed from Getty Images
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Francis Bacon, Sr: Hypocritical zeal
“The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.” ~Francis Bacon, Sr. Embed from Getty Images
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Herman Melville: Salt and wine
“At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water, is like wine, in that respect.” ~Herman Melville. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463914359
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Maria Sharapova: Impress me
“It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.” ~Maria Sharapova. Embed from Getty Images
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Herbert Spencer: Contempt prior to investigation
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” —Herbert Spencer, philosopher (Apr 27 1820-1903).
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Thomas Szasz: Work
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012). Embed from Getty Images
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Rita Rudner: Large breasts
“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.” ~Rita Rudner Embed from Getty Images
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings—always darker, emptier and simpler.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche. Embed from Getty Images
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Anne Lamott: God's image
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer (b. 10 Apr 1954). Embed from Getty Images
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Sylvester Stallone: Winners or losers
“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to their hearts.” ~Sylvester Stallone Embed from Getty Images
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Katherine Hepburn: Men and women
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/110183516 “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” ~Katherine Hepburn.
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Condoleezza Rice: Headlines and history
“Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.” –Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Sigmund Freud: Small and large matters
“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. ” —Sigmund Freud. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107875010
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Tommy Politz: Information and application
“Information without application leads to deception. Information with application leads to transformation. Based on Hebrews 10” Tommy Politz.
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Henry David Thoreau: What do you see?
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ” —Henry David Thoreau. Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Burning bridges
“Burning bridges isn’t always a bad thing… sometimes it’s the only thing keeping you from going back to somewhere you never should have been to begin with!!!” unknown
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Pleasure and happiness
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. -Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794).
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Aristotle: Fear
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ” —Aristotle. Embed from Getty Images
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Anonymous: Tourists and terrorists
“Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.” —Anon. Embed from Getty Images
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John Ellerton: Easter
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into your work, and do all in the name of the Lord Jesus; take it to your heart, and let that heart rise anew on Easter wings to a higher,…
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Henry David Thoreau: Freedom and the law
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ” —Henry David Thoreau. Embed from Getty Images
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Not enough
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, and politician. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/464664771
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Dale Turner: New beauty
“No matter our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” ~Dale Turner.
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Phillips Brooks: Good Friday
“We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel…
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Jose Marti: Passion and interest
“The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. ” —Jose Marti. Embed from Getty Images
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Alexander Graham Bell: Man
“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.” —Alexander Graham Bell.
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Chinese Proverb: Fooling around
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” ~Chinese Proverb.
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Mark Twain: April 1
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894.
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Walter Chrysler: Enthusiasm
“The real secret of success is enthusiasm. ” —Walter Chrysler. Embed from Getty Images
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Heinrich Heine: Book-burning
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. -Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856).
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Anushka Sharma: Frivolous
“When you talk about your relationship in public, you make it frivolous.” ~Anushka Sharma. Embed from Getty Images
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Norman Schwarzkopf: Strategy and character
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ” — Norman Schwarzkopf.
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Lauren Bacall: Worry
“You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now. ” —Lauren Bacall. Embed from Getty Images
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Karen Kingsbury: Good enough
“If a girl makes you feel like you’re not good enough, then maybe you never will be.” —Karen Kingsbury. Embed from Getty Images
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Joan Baez: Decide
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. ” —Joan Baez. Embed from Getty Images
