Anthony de Mello Quotes

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

Anthony de Mello

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Future
  • Predict
  • Few

• Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't pick my friends based on politics.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Friends

• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Distance