Fellows Quotes - Page 22

• I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  Joe Lieberman

  Baseball, Country, Teacher

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• Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Commitment, Sacrifice

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Feb 11, 2014

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• The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Motivation, Fundamentals

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• I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other fellow did. Perfect timing, a deep breath and a natural spring then helped me to get above them.

  Roy Cazaly

  Sports, Spring, Perfect

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• The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Grief, Moving

  "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

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• If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational Life, Sadness, Heart

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• The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

  Henry Clarke Wright

  Heart, Men, Tyrants

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• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

  James Baker

  Agendas, Live By

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• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agreement, Skins, Fool

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• Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Scientist, Climate Change, Claims

  Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway (2010). “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Women, Opportunity, Democracies Have

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• Try to remember the kind of September
  When life was slow and oh
  so mellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When grass was green and grain was yellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When you were a tender and callow fellow.
  Try to remember and if you remember
  then follow
  follow.

  Tom Jones

  Yellow, September 11, Trying

  "Song: 'Try to Remember'". 1960.

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• Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Survival, Church

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• So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Retreat, Energy

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• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Lying, Believe

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• If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

  Confucius

  Trust, Leadership, Respect

  "The Analects".

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• We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.

  John J. Raskob

  Respect, Attitude, Men

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Respect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

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• Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Religious, Kindness, Heart

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• The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

  Jacob Schiff

  Custodians, Stewardship, Wealth

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