Anthony de Mello Quotes

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Change
  • Present
  • Democracy

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

  OMI
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Hidden

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Car
  • Name
  • Media

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Democracy

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Business
  • Changes

• Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Like
  • Hollywood

• I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Future
  • Violence

• In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Politics

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

  

  Mel Ott
  • Born
  • Luck
  • Balls

• It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Country

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love.'

  

  Eleanora Fagan

• Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Period

• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Ego