Monsters Quotes - Page 36

• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Pieces

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Night, Devil

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• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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• Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  People, Fame, Worst

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• My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Father, Cutting, My Family

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• We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves.

  John J. Geddes

  Fear, Dark

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• The monster London laugh at me.

  Abraham Cowley

  Laughing, London

  Abraham Cowley, Richard Hurd, Thomas Sprat (1772). “Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In 2 Vol”, p.129

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Dragons, Champion

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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• I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

  Martin Buber

  Peace, War, Advice

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• I think the hardest person to love is yourself
  I mean-
  You carry your flaws like burdens
  And you feel them on your skin
  The words you shouldn't have said
  Still echo in your head
  So you keep quiet
  Your mistakes, like monsters
  They haunt you
  And you put them to sleep every night
  The words you should've said
  Still echo in your head
  I bet you'd give yourself a chance
  If you were someone else instead

  Yara

  Mistake, Mean, Sleep

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• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Evil, Giving

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• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  Iggy Azalea

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Bells

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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Learning, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

  Steven Moffat

  Office, Toys, Said

  "Steven Moffat: The man with a monster of a job". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Heaven, Impossible

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.14

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• Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Men, Strange

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.387

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Ocean, Moon, Depth

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• A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Women, Knowing, Evil

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• Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Race, Traitor

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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