Quotes about anything
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“Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.”

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)

“My own experience with my films has been that the more I’m left alone, the better I do. It isn’t that I think I’m smarter than anyone, or anything like that. It’s just that whatever my instincts are, it’s better for me to be able to put those into play in my own work.”

Joan Micklin Silver (1935–2020) American film director

Primary Source - Directors Guild of America’s Visual Oral History Program - Interview by Michael Pressman - Chapter 3 - Visual History with Joan Micklin Silver https://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Interviews/Joan-Micklin-Silver.aspx?Filter=Full%20Interview - 19 September 2005 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210911133653/https://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Interviews/Joan-Micklin-Silver.aspx?Filter=Full+Interview Secondary Sources - New York Times article by Anita Gates - Joan Micklin Silver, Director of ‘Crossing Delancey,’ Dies at 85 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html - 1 January 2021 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210911135615/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html MSN Entertainment article by Tyler Aquilina - Joan Micklin Silver, boundary-breaking director of Crossing Delancey, dies at 85 https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/joan-micklin-silver-boundary-breaking-director-of-crossing-delancey-dies-at-85/ar-BB1cq6Pn - 2 January 2021 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210911134333/https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/joan-micklin-silver-boundary-breaking-director-of-crossing-delancey-dies-at-85/ar-BB1cq6Pn

Thinking

“We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Non abbiamo che il corpo. L’anima è un’invenzione, polvere di croce.

Soul

“Maybe we should take another roll of the dice
Can't believe we both let it fade away
I want to stay for another day
If you want to save us, give me a signal,
anything will do”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Anything" (song) ("Anything" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYrx2J3JdfA Studio albums, Playing in the Shadows (2011)

“Depending on what you believe in life, you are capable of achieving anything without changing your body somehow.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Change, Dependency

“The Creator only gives, but does not expect anything from us. He invests in us without expecting any interest in return.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The truth is that, reality matter more than imaginary things—Your perceptions and concepts of the world doesn't contribute anything to anyone.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Truth, World, Reality

“: A strong team that is dedicated and willing to do anything must be formed before putting all of your trust in the people that you are leading.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Strong

“All self-help authors are like babysitters. Because they have to lead and nurture us until we are mentally fit to accomplish anything in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Help

“Always use the sharp knife of the philosophers to make sense at anything presented before you and come to the land of logic.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Sense

“Doctors and nurses will never understand your romantic feelings. Because for them the heart is only there to pump blood throughout the body, they cannot see anything beyond their nose. They also cannot point to the source of love in the body.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Feeling, Understanding, Heart

“God can give you anything, but not make you immune to temptation and be patient in life. This is where freedom of choice, free will, comes into play.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, God, Freedom

“God does not change, which is why He is considered the Absolute. Anything that changes can't be you too, including the mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Change

“In the case of feedback, when someone says you can't do something or accomplish anything great in life; then this is a great source of motivation for you. It is a waking call to force you to do better than before.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Motivation

“Isn't life beautiful? We don't have time to complain about anything. If you like it, keep doing it; otherwise take another path.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Beauty, Time

“It can be easily seen that there will be no manifestation, nor attraction of anything without setting your mindset upon expectations.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“No one knows anything about infinity. Perhaps 'unconditional love' can also be placed in this category.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“Only repetition with a goal in mind can truly lead to mastery. Sometimes you can keep rehearsing without learning anything new.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Learning

“The mystery of knowledge is that once you know, you won't have anything more to ask. Thus, closing the door to ask more exciting questions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Question, Knowledge

“Thinking outside of the box is the art of accomplishing things without even borrowing anything from one's memory. Living in the present moment.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Art, Thinking, Memory, Box

“It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.”

Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) American art historian

As quoted in John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

God

“I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous.”

Kim Gordon (1953) American musician, bassist of Sonic Youth

On how she perceived fame in “Kim Gordon: ‘I never think of myself as famous – I’m barely famous’” https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/kim-gordon-i-never-think-of-myself-as-famous-i-m-barely-famous-1.3969888 in The Irish Times (31 Jul 2019)

Thinking

“Critics generally come to be critics by reason not of their fitness for this but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes, and counsel should be heard on both sides.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Criticism
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

Books

“If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.”

Mirai Nagasu (1993) American figure skater

As quoted in Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu on Asian American Stereotypes, Her Reputation, and Breaking U.S. Olympic Records https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a17806677/mirai-nagasu-interview-olympics-2018/ in Cosmopolitan (February 16, 2018)

“If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
General, The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

Men, God, Happiness

“I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November — on the third of November, to be precise — and I remember every instant since.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Source: General, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I

Truth, Problem

“We ought not to stint anything that is necessary in order to crush the rebellion.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Letter to Bonar Law (10 May 1920), quoted in D. G. Boyce, 'How to Settle the Irish Question: Lloyd George and Ireland 1916–21', in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971), pp. 150-151
Prime Minister

“We always think there are stories to do and we don’t think, ‘maybe this environment should be better’. We’ve always felt we could do anything we wanted. It was just based on what our priorities are.”

Hu Shuli (1953) Chinese journalist

As quoted in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa

Thinking

“If you are too careful about taking risks, you end up not doing anything. If you don’t want to take any responsibilities, again you end up doing nothing in life. Transhumanists are the ones who actually want to take risks and want to take responsibilities. And that’s what we are doing!”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

Collective Superintelligence Summit (June 4, 2021)

Life

“I don’t outline anything in advance. That can be really scary. I liken it to walking blindfolded. I’m trying to head towards somewhere, but I have no idea how to get there. I don’t write in order, either. I’m taking things as they come, following my fancy.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

As quoted in "Why Jenny Han Thinks We Should Judge To All The Boys I Loved Before By Its Cover" in Refinery 29 (9 August 2018) https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/206826/jenny-han-to-all-the-boys-i-loved-before-author-interview

Idea

“Well, I don’t ever plan anything in my books. Since I don’t outline, I tend to just go wherever my imagination leads me and where I feel excited to write about. I tend to write scenes that I would want to read.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

As quoted in "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han on watching her book become a phenomenon" in Vox (4 June 2019) https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18648808/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-jenny-han-interview

Books, Feeling, Imagination, Reading

“You could get use to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“Consolidation: Day 260” (p. 173)
Seveneves (2015), Part One

Time

“If night were a thief, it would be steal my happiness or my dreams of life. Maybe she doesn't know that I don't have anything special that she can steal. He finds nothing under my pillow except my sorrows.
If she looks around, she would have found a shining chest kept in a dark corner, when she open it, she would find nothing but my loneliness. she had to go empty handed with remorse.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, Happiness, Dreams, Loneliness

“That anything should exist at all does seem to me a matter for the deepest awe. But whether other people feel this sort of awe, and whether they or I ought to is another question. I think we ought to.”

J. J. C. Smart (1920–2012) Australian philosopher and academic

The Existence of God, Church Quarterly Review, 156(319): 194 (1955).
Other quotes

People, Feeling, Question, Thinking

“Anything is true if enough people believe it is.”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", p. 99
Cloud Atlas (2004), Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 1)

People

“There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.”

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) American actress

As quoted in "Kelly Marie Tran thought she'd quit acting — then The Last Jedi put her dream into hyperdrive" in Entertainment Weekly (20 November 2017) https://ew.com/movies/2017/11/20/kelly-marie-tran-star-wars-the-last-jedi/

Life, Thinking, Passion, Time

“I'm not religious or anything like that. [But] a little more spiritual something or other.. .A little more 'feeling.'”

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) American painter

And there's my word again. You know?.. .And I find that.. ..[pauses], I find that uninspiring, and if I hung around too much I might find it very deadly. If I let it enter my studio. And it would be hard not to have it enter.
Tape number two, side A
1980s, Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986

Feeling

“The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.”

Henry Tizard (1885–1959) British chemist

Undated attributed quote

Secret, World, Question, Problem

“The point I wish to emphasize is not an economic one, but a human one: if you try to say too many things, you don’t say anything at all.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles

“I am asking you to help me. Our mutual master would stride naked into the desert, trusting in God and in his own brilliance to shield him from the sun. But the desert knows only that it is. Neither gods nor cleverness mean anything to it.”

Judith Tarr (1955) American fantasy writer, historian

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 8 (p. 89)

God, Sun, Help

“I was so thankful to just be alive. Things that bothered me before... nothing, I have become much more peaceful and less worried about anything.”

Caren Marsh Doll (1919) actress, dancer

Survivors’ Tales https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-04-me-62387-story.html (August 4, 1999)

Peace

“But are we within likelihood? Are we even still within the realm of anything other than paranoid lunacy?”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 19 “Dispatches” (p. 357)

“At the level of luminous beings the range is so broad that it is futile to try to establish limits--thus, the energy of a luminous being can be transformed through will into anything.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

“What channels the energy of our total being to produce anything that might be within the boundaries of possibility is known as will.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

“If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)

Effort, Success

“A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

Evil

“A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he "sees" that his life will be over altogether too soon. He "sees" that nothing is more important that anything else.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Life, Heart

“When a warrior learns to "see" he "sees" that a man is a luminous egg whether he's a beggar or a king and there's no way to change anything; or rather, what could be changed in that luminous egg? What?”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Way, Learning, Change

“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Podkayne of Mars

There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)

Personality

“How should a man behave? Look at Daniel: no-one found anything in him to complain about except for his prayers to the Lord his God.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 53
Context: A brother asked Abba Poemen, "How should a man behave?". The old man said to him, "Look at Daniel: no-one found anything in him to complain about except for his prayers to the Lord his God."

God

“Tourists think that Thailand is beautiful, safe and that they can do anything they want here. That they can put on their bikinis and go anywhere they want. I ask, can you get away with wearing bikinis in Thailand? Unless you are not beautiful.”

Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician

Source: "Thai PM apologises for bikini warning after Britons' murder" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/thai-prime-minister-apologises-bikini-comments-murder (18 September 2014)

Beauty, Thinking

“If history is to teach us anything, it must teach us that there is a continuity which binds together the present and the past, the East and the West. And no branch of history teaches that lesson more powerfully than the history of language and the history of religion.”

Max Müller (1823–1900) German-born philologist and orientalist

Religion, History, Past

“Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The English Assassin (1972)
Source: The Alternative Apocalypse 1 (p. 399)

“[…] Abrupt climate change may be normal in the planet's history, or, to state it differently, that the earth's climate is inherently very unstable. The period in which human civilization developed has been if anything, an anomalous ten-thousand-year epoch of remarkable stability.”

James Howard Kunstler book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 5, p. 149.

History, Change

“Ten years is a long time to be a part of anything and to have a group of people in your life for any reason, let alone one that really was a part of my most formative years.”

Vincent Martella (1992) American actor

Source: Batman: Death in the Family's Vincent Martella Talks Reprising Jason Todd Role https://www.cbr.com/batman-death-in-the-family-jason-todd-interview/ (October 9, 2020)

Life, People, Time, Parting

“I have spent most of my life preferring books to people. Just because I like a few specific people doesn’t change anything.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 24 (p. 322)
Context: “I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,” Irene said sharply. “Just because I like a few specific people doesn’t change anything.”

Life, People, Books, Change

“That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”

Pat Cadigan (1953) science fiction author

Source: Short fiction, Naming Names (1992), p. 389

Dependency

“I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.”

Dave Bautista (1969) American actor and professional wrestler

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Sport, Strong, Passion

“The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash,”

Nils Bohlin (1920–2002) Swedish inventor

Source: Deathwatch mailarchive http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00869.html

“If those promises do not get fulfilled, it will make future passage of anything much more difficult. BIF will look like a cakewalk”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician

Source: via Twitter Tweet https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1457374737722654725 (November 7, 2021)

Future

“There does not fall under the scope of God's omnipotence anything that implies a contradiction. Now that the past should not have been implies a contradiction.... Whence, that the past should not have been, does not come under the scope of divine power.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I, q. 25, art. 4

God, Past

“Does the word "shyster" mean anything to you?”

Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author

Quotes From Judge Judy Cases, Being Cocky
Context: To a law student

“This lack of pride has led to a serious weakening of the Hindu psyche. Hindus are no more prepared to stand up and fight for anything, because they no more believe or feel that anything is worth fighting for, not at least to the bitter end.”

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

Source: Defence of Hindu Society (1983)

Feeling, Fight

“While not reliable enough to be put in charge of anything more complicated than a dishwasher, they were very easy to convince that all their troubles were someone else’s fault.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 2 (p. 34)

“The sworn enemies of Hindu society have taken advantage of this enervation of the Hindus. They feel instinctively that threats coupled with some show of violence are sure to frighten the Hindus out of their wits, and make them yield almost anything including precious parts of their homeland.”

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

Source: Defence of Hindu Society (1983)

Feeling, Parting

“I keep trying to resist the thought, but the thought keeps pushing its way back in: The Western world has sunk into madness. There are no solutions to anything. The talk of our politicians is the babbling of fools, but we keep electing them anyway. We are collectively insane.”

John Derbyshire (1945) writer

Source: Succouring the Poor https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/succouring-poor-john-derbyshire/, National Review, February 6, 2012.

World, Fools, Way, Madness

“Thinking is easier than working. And the best kind of thinking is the kind where you don't have to write anything down, i.e., "meeting thinking." When you think up an idea during a meeting, all you have to do is blurt it out. You won't have to involve any parts of your body except your mouth and maybe your brain stem.”

Scott Adams book The Joy of Work

Source: Books, The Joy of Work (1998)

Idea, Thinking, Parting

“Anything interesting in the paper? Some tragedy, some comedy, nothing that’ll matter in a hundred years.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 28, “I Am Margaret/On Tercis” (p. 238)

“Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IX, 40

Pain, Fear

“I’m down for any type of movie. I never want to limit myself as an actor to the possibilities that are out there. I am down for anything. If anything that I do, I do the best of my ability.”

Uriah Shelton (1997) American actor and singer

Source: Interview with Uriah Shelton https://www.scifiandscary.com/interview-with-uriah-shelton/ (28 May 2017)

“Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot understand the animals' and plants' business, we have therefore denied that it can understand anything whatever.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Organic and Inorganic
Source: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter

Understanding, Business, Animals

“Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Source: Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Lake of Voices” (p. 197), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)

Law

“If anything goes wrong with the Supreme Court, we are in trouble. If anything goes wrong with the court, we are in trouble.”

Folake Solanke (1932) Nigerian lawyer

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lqx-jLCac Folake Solanke speaks on the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

“Sometimes, you also just want to be in your personal space and it doesn’t mean you don’t love (your fans) or anything. It just means you want your space.”

Simisola Kosoko (1988) Nigerian singer and songwriter

Source: https://amp/s/www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/simi-speaks-with-pulse-nigeria-interview/wjmypg8.amp Simi during an Interview with Pulse Nigeria

Love, Personality

“To become successful in anything, you need to first of all love what you do and have a strong passion for it. You also need to build up your skills, read widely, study your craft, and keep on setting bigger targets for yourself.”

Stephanie Okereke Linus (1982) Nigerian Actress and singer

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-interview-with-_37_b_11591236 During an interview (December 6 2017)

Love, Study, Strong, Passion

“Believing strongly that God has given you all the abilities you need, you can be anything you want to be.”

Stephanie Okereke Linus (1982) Nigerian Actress and singer

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-interview-with-_37_b_11591236 During an interview (December 6 2017)

God

“God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.”

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Hasan al-Niffari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 80

Love, God

“Anything said appears to be a confrontation between the government and the Church.”

Enrique Eguía Seguí (1962) Catholic bishop

Source: Buenos Aires bishop says ad limina visit is ‘pastoral and religious’ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/15368/buenos-aires-bishop-says-ad-limina-visit-is-pastoral-and-religious (15 March 2009)

Appearance

“Could I interest you in everything?
All of the time?
A little bit of everything
All of the time
Apathy's a tragedy
And boredom is a crime
Anything and everything
All of the time”

Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor

Source: "Welcome to the Internet" Inside (2021)

Time

“Don't try to fool me and act like you can do or say anything 'because we are a democracy...Do you misunderstand something? Today, I am the one makes the rules. Previous governments couldn't do that. But today, I made the rules [sic], and all of you have to follow them.”

Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician

Source: Anti-Junta Protest in Khon Kaen, Despite Prayuth's Warnings http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1433764390 (8 June 2015)

Fools, Democracy

“Having regard to the use which Germany made of her great army, is there anything unjust in scattering that army, disarming it, making it incapable of repeating the injury which it has inflicted upon the world?”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/territorial-adjustments#S5CV0117P0_19190703_HOC_316 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

World

“Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999) Page 61

“Children should above all be taught self-reliance, love for all men, altruism, mutual charity, and more than anything else, to think and reason for themselves... Aim at creating free men and women, free intellectually, free morally, unprejudiced in all respects, and above all things, unselfish.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book The Key to Theosophy

Source: The Key to Theosophy (1889)

Love, Women, Men, Children

“Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 12, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (p. 265)

Men, Light

“Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I’m considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, “Who knows why the fuck anything happens?””

Ben Aaronovitch book Rivers of London

Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 1, “Material Witness” (pp. 2-3)

Wisdom, Quotes, Help

“A lot of things need to be done since people are not totally free or happy. We have had a lot of struggles in relation to religious harmony. Due to the certain actions of Buddhist monks, there was unrest in the community. So nobody was able to do anything, not even the authorities/”

Noel Emmanuel (1960)

Source: Expectations rise amidst tension and unrest in Sri Lanka https://www.ucanews.com/news/expectations-rise-amidst-tension-and-unrest-in-sri-lanka/78079 (16 January 2017)

Happiness, People, Communication

“We won’t even know if they've done anything, and so, they'll be dropped wherever the federal government wants to drop them, and they'll disappear into our society. We'll never know, until something bad happens, if we have a terrorist.”

Ken Paxton (1962) American politician

Source: Exclusive — TX AG Ken Paxton on Afghan Refugees: ‘We Don’t Know Whether They’re Vetted’ or ‘Terrorists’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/09/exclusive-tx-ag-ken-paxton-afghan-refugees-we-dont-know-whether-theyre-vetted-terrorists/ (9 September 2021)

“By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

Source: Republished email to Gawker's Ryan Tate, May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100919141354/http://gawker.com/5539717/

Way, Motivation

“So, you just trust your judgment and hope for the best, which at times is like stepping on a minefield where anything can happen.”

Elizabeth Itotia (1992) Kenyan nuclear pharmacist (born 1992)

Source: As quoted in an article titled Kenya's First Female Radiopharmaceutical Scientist https://allafrica.com/stories/202107250142.html by Magdalene Wanja published on 25th July, 2021. She had been asked about the challenged she experiences in the field.

Hope, Time

“Development of human race takes place in discovering new options on how to improve anything, mostly the human itself”

Angelo Vulpini (2003) Venezuelan recording artist

Source: Posted on @angelovulpini, Instagram (May 29, 2019)

“[I] didn't say anything about Turkey during the referendum. Since I made no remarks...I can't disown them”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Source: Brexit: Did Boris Johnson talk Turkey during referendum campaign? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46926119, BBC News, 18 January 2019

“Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

book Bible

Source: 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, NKJV

Forgiveness, Christ

“The life I've led has only been made possible because I'm an American. The astounding people I've met along the way, the astonishing experience I've had, and the amazing opportunities I've been given have far exceeded anything I could have ever hoped for or expected.”

Lynn Compton book Call of Duty

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), Preamble

Life, People, Hope, Way

“Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book XI, 13

Hate, Problem

“I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.”

Charlton Heston (1923–2008) American actor

Winning the Cultural War (1999), Video farewell (2002)

Life, Spring, Change, Loss

“As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Source: As quoted in "In conversation with Kate Bush" by Elio Iannacci in MacLeans (28 November 2016) https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/in-conversation-with-kate-bush/

Happiness, Hope, Parting

“If you want to find out whether the person is there or the ideology is there, you listen to see if you're hearing anything that someone else with the same ideological mindset couldn't have told you.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

https://www.youtube.com/V32WHDuy-Do?t=904
Other

Personality

“When I first started singing the anthem, my thoughts were always to sing it in a way that my father would like it to be sung— not just the sound, but also the intention. If you sing anything with intention, it really is hard to get tired of it.”

Mark Donnelly (1960) Canadian singer

Source: Mark Donnelly: Q&A with the slimming anthem singer https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/mark-donnelly-qa-with-the-slimming-anthem-singer/ (March 13, 2012)

Way, Singing

“I play defense as much as anything down there.”

Mike Cierpiot (1953) American politician

New Missouri House Floor Leader Cierpiot on Issues and John Diehl https://www.missourinet.com/2015/08/03/new-missouri-house-floor-leader-cierpiot-on-issues-and-john-diehl/ (3 August 2015)

“The idea of schooling free men in anything would have revolted Athenians. Forced training was for slaves. Among free men, learning was self-discipline, not the gift of experts.”

John Taylor Gatto book The Underground History of American Education

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001), p. 62

Men, School, Idea, Learning

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