Anthony de Mello Quotes

The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

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• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Friends
  • First
  • Fame

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Artist
  • Weird
  • Bit

• I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Money
  • Always
  • Ambitious

• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • People
  • Faults
  • Other

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Church

• You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Guy

• Wiederhorn, Jon (February 8, 1996). Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back. Rolling Stone.

  

  Layne Staley
  • February

• The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Time
  • History
  • Popular

• I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Sexy

• In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

  

  George Mackay Brown
  • People
  • Reason
  • Stories

• My dad played football - and tennis as well - and so did my brothers. My dad was chairman of our local club, Spartans, for a while. But back when I was a boy, people didn't think of football as a career.

  

  Nwankwo Kanu
  • Think
  • Career
  • Football

• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Other

• What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Done
  • German

• He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

  

  Colin Montgomerie
  • Luck
  • Week
  • Lasts

• The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

  

  Anthony de Mello