Anthony de Mello Quotes

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Today
  • Young
  • Trends

• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Challenge

• I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Today
  • Party
  • Problems

• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Today
  • Win

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Today
  • Fear
  • New

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • House

• Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

  

  James Wilson
  • Important
  • Water

• I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Soul
  • Wish

• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Day
  • Door

• String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.

  

  Edward Witten

• When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

  

  Anthony de Mello
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