Mondora Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves. — Zhuangzi

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true. — Eddie Redmayne

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried. — Anthony Doerr

The most meaningful prayer is kindness. — Debasish Mridha

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear. — Tammy Faye Bakker

In nature, crying is okay. Waterfalls cry all the time. — A.S. King

The most intense wars are civil wars, just as the most vivid and rending personal conflicts are internal ones, and what I hope to do now is give some idea of what it is like to fight on two fronts at once, to try and keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind, even occasionally to show two faces at the same time. — Christopher Hitchens

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? — Andrew Greeley

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. — Jonathan Franzen

We may not make sure that the Lord will at once remove all disease from those we love, but we may know that believing prayer for the sick is far more likely to be followed by restoration than anything else in the world; and where this avails not, we must meekly bow to His will by whom life and death are determined. The tender heart of Jesus waits to hear our griefs, let us pour them into His patient ear. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise? — Toba Beta

Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part, Westerners are descendants of barbarian, nomadic tribes such as the Teutons and the Anglo-Saxons. They burst out of the primeval forest like wild animals after a couple of thousand years of Greek and Roman civilization, and sacked ancient Rome. They eat steak, cheese, and butter with knives and forks, which is how they've retained more primitive wildness than the traditional farming races. Over the past hundred years, domesticated China has been bullied by the brutish West. It's not surprising that for thousands of years the Chinese colossus has been spectacularly pummeled by tiny nomadic peoples. — Jiang Rong

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. — Harry S. Truman

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it. — Elizabeth Warren

The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity. — Elisabeth Badinter