Monastyrskaya Quotes & Sayings

Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm. — Hannah Arendt

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you. — Henry F. Ashurst

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible. — Alice Rivlin

Even a glamorous bitch can be in need. — Tori Amos

The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. — George Bernard Shaw

To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand

A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together ... Layers, by their nature, are fragile things. — Deb Caletti

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society. — Jackie Chan

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour. — Carolyn Wells

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open. — Baltasar Gracian

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know. — John Flanagan

I'm going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I'll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember? — Jaden Wilkes

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. — Robin Morgan

Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone ... — Allison B. Levine

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace. — George Jonas