Anthony de Mello Quotes

Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'

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• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

  

  Jack London
  • Dog
  • Charity
  • Hungry

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Society
  • Support
  • Now

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Church
  • Obedience

• If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

  

  Ian Botham
  • Good
  • Change
  • Three

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Different
  • Way
  • Europe

• I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Single
  • Health
  • Quality

• Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Today
  • Religion
  • Often

• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Attitude
  • Should
  • Breathe

• Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Music

• I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • World
  • War

• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Autumn
  • Fruit
  • Leaves

• Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'

  

  Anthony de Mello