Anthony de Mello Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
-
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
-
My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
-
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
-
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
-
There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
-
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
-
The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
-
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
-
I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
-
I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'
-
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
-
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
-
Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say 'No'
-
Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
-
If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
-
Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.
-
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
-
When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
-
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.
-
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
