Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Friedrich Schiller: Truth and clamor
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ”Friedrich Schiller.
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Murray Walker: Halving it…
“With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go. ” — Murray Walker
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Victor Hugo: Greater need of the ideal
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” —Victor Hugo.
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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Felicia Anjani: Statement, promise and responsibility
“I’m Sorry” is a statement. “I won’t do it again” is a promise. “How do I make it up to you” is a responsibility. ~ Felicia Anjani.
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Pat Riley: Winning
“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” ~Pat Riley, former coach and player in the NBA. Embed from Getty Images
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Susan B. Anthony: Independence is happiness
“Independence is happiness. ” Susan B. Anthony. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2673287
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Andrew Card: Quotes
Embed from Getty Images “You shouldn’t presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. ” Andrew Card.
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Anaïs Nin: Idea of them
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ‘idea of them’.” ~Anaïs Nin. Embed from Getty Images
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Stephen Hawking: Predestined
“I have noticed people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” ~Stephen Hawking. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181169057
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Saadi: Sorrow and joy
“That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.” —Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291).
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Henry Kissinger: Businessman
“If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. ” —Henry Kissinger. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/454553452
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John Henry Newman: Words and ideas
“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ” John Henry Newman. Embed from Getty Images
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Ideals
“Our ideals are our better selves. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463900769
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Don Bosco: Jesus crucified
“Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.” —Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Politics
“In 1848, I realized that if I wanted to get anywhere in doing some good, I had to put politics aside. From then on, I always shied away from politics and managed to do good without interference. In addition, I found help where I least expected it.” – Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Honey
“I’d like you to learn how to make honey as the bees do. Do you know how they go about it? First, they do not act independently, each on its own, but as a team under the direction of a queen bee, whom they obey in every detail. Secondly, they go from flower to flower…
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J. Bronowski: Impersonal world
“Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy’s dignity Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure.” ~J. Bronowski. Embed from Getty Images
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Ursula K Le Guin: Thousand men
“It does not take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.” “It might to keep it open.” ~Ursula K Le Guin. Embed from Getty Images
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St. Francis of Assisi: Pardon
“Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ” St. Francis of Assisi. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/486702881
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Babe Ruth: Don't ever forget
“Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks. ” Babe Ruth. Embed from Getty Images
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Bronwyn Davies: No longer…
“It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.” Bronwyn Davies.
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Colette: Writer or author?
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954).
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John Cale: Databank
“The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank. ” John Cale. Embed from Getty Images
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George Iles: Student
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.” George Iles. Embed from Getty Images
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R. A. Salvatore: Grab at the stars
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them… At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.” R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn.
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Subhash Chandra Bose: Blood to blood
“India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy’s ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr’s death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Tryst with destiny
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Beauty
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ” ~John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Immanuel Kant: Law and ethics
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ” ~Immanuel Kant.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Success
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’” —Clare Boothe Luce. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974
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Clare Boothe Luce: Hopeless situations
Embed from Getty Images “There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Castle or nursery?
“A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Frozen asset
Nature abhors a virgin – a frozen asset. —Clare Boothe Luce. Embed from Getty Images
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Clare Boothe Luce: Divorce
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974 “You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Lying
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974 “Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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John F. Kennedy: Conformity
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” —John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Wombs and brains
“But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.” ~Clare Boothe Luce. Embed from Getty Images
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Wallace Stevens: Judgment
“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.” —Wallace Stevens.
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Chinese Proverb: Fear and standing still…
“Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.” —Chinese Proverb.
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Viktor Frankl: Absolute honesty
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997).
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Martin Luther King Jr: Guilt
“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.” —Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74280025
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Russell Mark: Competing
“Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one’s character. ” Russell Mark. Embed from Getty Images
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Richard Stallman: Ideas
“Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. ” Richard Stallman.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr: Refine
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Edward Sapir: Noun and verb
“One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.” —Edward Sapir.
