Anthony de Mello Quotes

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: September 4, 1931 - June 2, 1987

Topics

FearTruthHeartAloneGreatFirst

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

ExperiencePlaySpecialHumanOwn

Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders.

Robert Reich

CommunityEnvironmentCaliforniaTake

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

Anna Kendrick

FirePeoplePerceptionThinkYou

I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I AmSomeoneAfraidWhoReasonsAm

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

John Philip Sousa

PeopleAmericaSheExpectWell

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

Smedley Butler

CityAmericanPlaceOilCubaMexico

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.

Milos Zeman

PersonalityPoliticalPartyPerson

If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality in wages, representation, and access.

Jay Duplass

EyesEqualityOpenIndustryObvious

Credit card companies and banks usually aren't shy when they're trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn't even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.

Dick Durbin

CreditTryingYouShyCredit Card

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

Boots Riley

YouLaborClassWorkingIssues

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

Archibald Hill

GreatPlaceMuscleChangesTake

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Augusten Burroughs

WriteHappenWouldKnewOnce

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