Monsters Quotes - Page 24

• It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

  Lorraine Hansberry (1994). “The Collected Last Plays”, Vintage

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• Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Strong, War

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• Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.82, Jaico Publishing House

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• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

  Edith Wharton

  Rain, Character, Garden

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• People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

  Robert Bloch

  Children, Crazy, Heart

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• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

  John Keats

  Funny, Thinking, Class

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

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• As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

  Tammy Bruce

  Liberty, Speech, Way

  Tammy Bruce (2001). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, Prima Lifestyles

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• And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Rome, Civilization

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1976). “The coming breakpoint”, Not Avail

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• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Home, Rising Up, Government

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• The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.

  Hermann Minkowski

  School, Science, Views

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• The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Air, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.171, Library of Alexandria

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• My idea for BoneMan's Daughters came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  Ted Dekker

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Knowing

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• The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

  David Bainbridge

  Brain, World, Maps

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

  Coco Rocha

  Inspirational, Fashion, Sweet

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• I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

  Niki Taylor

  Artist, Makeup, Extremes

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• Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Grace, Doe

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• Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sassy, Half

  William Shakespeare (1880). “The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions”

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• When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

  Simon Cowell

  Halloween, Doe, Asks

  "Simon Cowell: Simon says" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self, People

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• This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Men, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
  Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests,
  Of monsters in the ocean.
  
  You are the Just who knows no change,
  The Balance that can never swerve,
  The Eternal which never passes away.
  
  The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers.
  Your Door is open to all who call upon You.
  
  Each love is now alone with his beloved.
  And I am alone with You.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Kings, Stars

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• There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

  Jeph Jacques

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mistake

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