Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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African Proverb: Sorrow
“Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.” —African Proverb.
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Mary Kay Ash: Recognition and praise
“There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.”—Mary Kay Ash.
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Warren Buffett: Why?
“You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t…
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Philip Pullman: Writing
“If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get going next day. ” —Philip Pullman.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Bad times
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. ” —Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Edgar Watson Howe: Stubbornness
“A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. ” —Edgar Watson Howe.
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Chinese Proverb: Sadness
“You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.” —Chinese Proverb.
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William Randolph: The greatest right
“The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. ” –—William Randolph.
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Pope John Paul I: I would have studied harder
“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder” —Pope John Paul I
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William Hazlitt: Confidence and capacity
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” —William Hazlitt
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Doris Lessing: Most democratic of institutions
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.” —Doris Lessing.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton: Rich and poor
“No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. ” Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Margaret Lee Runbeck: Rebellious learning
“Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ” ––Margaret Lee Runbeck.
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Jimmy Carter: A strong nation
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b.…
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Beatrice Webb: Diary writing
“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity. ” —Beatrice Webb
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Maxwell Maltz: Sell yourself
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. ” —Maxwell Maltz
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Saint Patrick: Christ everywhere
“Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. ” —Saint Patrick Related articles Behold the Cross of Christ (samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com)
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Pope John Paul II: Majority decision
“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” Pope John Paul II
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Tennessee Williams: Honest writing
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams
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Bennett Cerf: Blessed
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ” Bennett Cerf Related articles The Health Benefits of Laughter (everydayhealth.com) Quotes About Laughter (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com)
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Anonymous: Value of money
The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them. Anonymous
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Jeannette Rankin: As far as they will go
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ” Jeannette Rankin
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Presence
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.” —W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Bruce Jenner: Reading and dyslexia
“The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they’ve read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ” —Bruce Jenner.
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Quintilian: Writing
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
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Peter E. Friedes: Self-absorption
Self-absorbed managers don’t care what employees think. They destroy morale, retard innovation, and block productivity improvements.” — Peter E. Friedes, former CEO, writing at Lead Change Group
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St. Francis: Make me an instrument
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” —St. Francis.
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Anne Rice: Now you know why you didn't ask…
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice
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Pope John XXIII: Men
“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: Need and greed
There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need, but not for man’s greed. Mohandas K. Gandhi Related articles A World Of Greed(ejaife.wordpress.com) “Bapuji Is No More” – The Death Of Mohandas Gandhi – January 30, 1948(pastdaily.com) The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.(roxsentimental.blogspot.com)…
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Gustave Flaubert: Writing
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Carol Welch: Movement
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.“ —Carol Welch.
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Charles Edward Montague: Rapture
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ” Charles Edward Montague Related articles Facing the Rapture (christiansnotions.wordpress.com)
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Nina Kuscik: Running
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want.” —Nina Kuscik.
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Richard Whately: Selfishness—defined
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor’s. Richard Whately
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Pope John XXIII: Papal ruminations
“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.” Pope John XXIII
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Carl Sandburg: Writing promises
“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. ” —Carl Sandburg.
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Rudyard Kipling: Mother o' mine
“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! ” Rudyard Kipling Related articles 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered(guardian.co.uk) Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published(bbc.co.uk) If by Rudyard Kipling(tedxmanipaluniversitydubai.com) Scholar Finds 50 Lost…
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Jimmy Sangster: Minds and faces
“A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. ” Jimmy Sangster
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Brooks Atkinson: The perfect bureaucrat
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” –—Brooks Atkinson Related articles Stewards (meta.wikimedia.org) Sometimes Bureaucrats Do Listen (billgeist.typepad.com) The Failure of Bureaucratic Safeties (rechabite.com) Why Bureaucrats Won’t Fix the Economy (realclearpolitics.com) City Hall Bureaucrats… (poppys-style.com)
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004).
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Origen Adamantius: Jesus and the multitudes
“When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ” Origen Adamantius
