Lisell Monaski Quotes & Sayings

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture. — Enock Maregesi

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job. — Susan Sontag

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson

Sometimes, love also means putting the needs of those you love ahead of your own. — Penelope Ward

When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint. — Joyce Meyer

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James Baldwin

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read. — Shelly Branch

Do not fail
to learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks. — Morihei Ueshiba

As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees. — Chief Joseph

When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts, and your genitals, and they're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs, they don't get it, they just want him. Want him. — Tony Kushner

Would you believe I cleaned the attic with my wife last weekend? I still can't get the dust out of her hair. — Various

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night. — Jeremias Gotthelf

I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another with defibrillators. — Dan Chaon

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie — Susan Marie