A Monster Calls Truth Quotes & Sayings

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats. — Ann Coulter

I only require that my characters have one thing and one thing in common. A total lack of self-control. — Fred Barnett

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't.
Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence. — Dorothy Allison

Uncle Drew?"
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"Where do babies come from? — Emma Chase

Your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story no matter what you do. You have been spoken. You are here, existing, choosing, living, shaping the future and carving the past. Your physical matter and your soul exist, not out of necessity, not voluntarily, and not under their own strength. There is absolutely nothing that you or I can do to guarantee that we will continue to exist. You aren't doing anything that makes you be. We aren't the Author. You and I are spoken. We have been called into this art as characters, born into this thread of occurrence tumbling downstream in the long Niagara of loss set in motion by the trouble that faced our first father and first mother. We will contribute to this narrative. But how? — N.D. Wilson

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be. — Diego Maradona

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God. — Timothy Keller

For every summons to a shining city on the hill or a promise of change we can believe in, we are presented with hundreds of examples of mudslinging and appeals to mob mentality. Rudeness is recast as honesty, greed is presented as ambition, and lines in the sand blur and move. — Nikki Stern

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire. — Richard Powers

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication. — Donna Summer

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. — Tom Waits

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good. — Jim Henson

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms. — Pema Chodron