Amonstro Quotes & Sayings

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. — Walter Lippmann

Only the dreamer can change the dream... — John Logan

You rich kids are all the same. Daddy may give you everything you want but the world won't, and it's my job to teach you that. — Evelyn Smith

If someone else was delivering your lines, would you like them? If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed? — N.D. Wilson

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. — Tony Bennett

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. — L.M. Montgomery

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. — George Galloway

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see them centered on ourselves. Fear, anxiety, greed, ambition and our hopeless need for pleasure all distort the image of reality that is reflected in our minds. Grace does not completely correct this distortion all at once: but it gives us a means of recognizing and allowing for it. And it tells us what we must do to correct it. Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. — Thomas Merton