Popular quotes page 91
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27
“Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
George Orwell book Coming Up for Air
Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1
“If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself.”
Vasil Levski (1837–1873) Bulgarian revolutionary
A letter to Panayot Hitov, written in March/April 1868.
Original: (bg) Ако спечеля, печеля за цял народ – ако загубя, губя само мене си.
“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
“Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.”
Selena Gomez (1992) American singer and actress
“The idle mind knows not what it wants.”
Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
“Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.”
Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player
“LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
“God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.”
Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) Russian mystic
As quoted in the opening of The Chalice of Immortality - Page xi - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1402215037
“I think being humble is sexy.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)
Ariana Grande (1993) American singer-songwriter
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)