Quite a Quote!

Jeanine Pirro: First trolley to hell

“As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.” —Jeanine Pirro.
G K Chesterton: Internal criticism

“Every patriot should criticize his own country, and be careful about intervening in the internal criticism of another country.” —G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton: Freed ourselves from freedom

“In freeing ourselves from Christianity, we have only freed ourselves from freedom.” —G K Chesterton.
Hailey Baldwin: Businesspeople

“The older supermodels sometimes don’t agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We’re not saying we’re supermodels. I’d rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we’re not trying to take anybody’s spot, and we’re not trying to discredit the past.” —Hailey Baldwin.
Brittany Daniel: Good-looking

“If you’ve been told all your life that you’re good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby – or even have depth.” —Brittany Daniel.
Simon Sinek: Ambition and leadership

“Ambition is refusing to quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.” —Simon Sinek.
Lilly Singh: Consistency speaks the truth

“Words lie; actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth.” —Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.
G K Chesterton: Frivolous

“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.” —G K Chesterton.
James Gunn: Rule of invention

“One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.” —James Gunn.
James Madison: Instruments of tyranny

“The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” —James Madison.
John Cage: Originality is necessary

“That one sees that the human race is one person (all of its members parts of the same body, brothers—not in competition any more than hand is in competition with eye) enables him to see that originality is necessary, for there is no need for eye to do what hand so well does.” —John Cage.
Simon Sinek: Value of emotions

“The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.” —Simon Sinek.
Marcus Aurelius: Heaps of sand

“Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.” —Marcus Aurelius.
G K Chesterton: Catholicity

“No Catholic thinks he is a good Catholic; or he would by that thought become a bad Catholic.” —G K Chesterton.
William Lamb Melbourne: Popular to unpopular

“It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy. . . but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.” —William Lamb Melbourne.
Shunryu Suzuki: Only enlightened actions

“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people. Only enlightened actions.” —Shunryu Suzuki.
Simon Sinek: Magic

“A good question should never be wasted. The answer just might be magic.” —Simon Sinek.
Marcus Aurelius: Third thing on top

“When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top— credit for the good deed or a favor in return?” —Marcus Aurelius.
G K Chesterton: Rights and wrongs

“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton: Let the Chinese invade Europe

“What can make us realize our European philosophy once more? The foreigner. Let the Chinese invade Europe. I pray for it. I hope for it. Nay, I insist upon it.” —G K Chesterton.
C S Lewis: Progress

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.” —C S Lewis.
Leonard Ravenhill: Holiness

“I can understand why the world is against holiness. I can’t understand why churches are against it.” —Leonard Ravenhill.
Warren Buffett: Think

“We think the best way to minimize risk is to think.” —Warren Buffett.
Ryan Campbell: Commenting code

“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” – Ryan Campbell.
Albert Einstein: Infinite

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein.
Marcus Aurelius: Death overshadows you

“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” —Marcus Aurelius.
G K Chesterton: Modern people

“Modern people, especially urban people, think that anything which has got itself printed has somehow passed an examination and received a diploma; has somehow, in fact, shown itself to be true.” —G K Chesterton.
Joe Biden: Demand change

“No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.” —Joe Biden.
G K Chesterton: Read exclusively

“If the sentimental literature of the present day is a curse, it is not so much because it is read widely, as because it is read exclusively.” —G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton: Sentimental literature

“lf sentimental literature is to be condemned it must emphatically not be because it is sentimental, it must be because it is not literature.” —G K Chesterton.
Fr. Ronald Knox: Soul love

“The more a soul loves, the more it realizes its own sins; the more it realizes its own sins, the more it loves.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
G K Chesterton: Sentimentality

“Sentimentality ought not to be anything but a passing mood; people who are sentimental day and night are among the most atrocious of the enemies of society. Dealing with them is like seeing an interminable number of poetical sunsets going on in the early morning.” —G K Chesterton.
Max Panzer: Empty

“Is your life Empty? – sugar, empty – TV, empty – MSM, empty – celebrities, empty – booze, empty – porn, empty – status, empty – vanity, empty – materialism, empty – gossip, empty – envy, empty First step… Empty your life of empty.” —Max Panzer.
Helen Hayes: Rust

“If you rest, you rust.” — Helen Hayes.
Paul Fix: Unfamiliar territory

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” —Paul Fix.
Sharad Pawar: Prices, distress and market rates

“If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.” —Sharad Pawar.
Felicity Huffman: Beauty

“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn’t good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.” —Felicity Huffman.
Marcus Aurelius: Change

“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be…
Shreya Ghoshal: Music reality shows

“Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.” —Shreya Ghoshal.
Seneca: Natural desires

“Natural desires are limited; but those which spring from false opinion can have no stopping-point. The false has no limits. When you are travelling on a road, there must be an end; but when astray, your wanderings are limitless. Recall your steps, therefore, from idle things, and when you would know whether that which you…
Howard Marks: Thankful heart

“The philosopher Cicero said something beautiful. He said, ‘The thankful heart is not only the greatest of all the virtues, but it is the parent of all the other virtues.’ And I think what that means is that people who are lucky should thank their luck, acknowledge it and revel in it. I think it…
G K Chesterton: Always partial

“The people who pretend to be impartial are always partial, whether they are judges or (worse still) historians.” —G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton: Impartiality

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.” —G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton: Only lizards

“One of the eternal paradoxes of human politics is the fact that it is only the man who is brave enough to challenge dragons who can discover that they are only lizards.” —G K Chesterton.
Joseph Sobran: Metaphorical violence everywhere

“A liberal can see metaphorical violence everywhere except in skull-crushing late-term abortions.” —Joseph Sobran.
Edward Albee: Source material

“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.” —Edward Albee.
Marie Kondō: Person we are becoming now

“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” —Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
Raye Montague: Change obstacles into challenges

“Change obstacles into challenges. You might have to step back and go a different direction, but you can achieve.” —Raye Montague.
Christopher Thompson: Monday’s code

“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” – Christopher Thompson.
Marcus Aurelius: Let not future things disturb you

“Let not future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with you the same reason which you now use for present things.” —Marcus Aurelius.