Monerans Quotes & Sayings

There's not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. YOU have to fix YOUR life. — Dave Ramsey

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal

I walk among the young and healthy and I am more or less one of them. I am trying not to itch. I am trying not to think about whether I'm itching. I am trying not to take my skin for granted. Sometimes my heart beats too fast, or a worm lodges under the skin of my ankle, or I drink too much, or I am too thin, but these are sojourns away from a kingdom I can generally claim - of being okay, capable of desire and being desired, full of a sense I belong in the world. But when I leave the Baptist church on Slaughter Lane, I can't quite the voices of those who no longer feel they belong anywhere. I spend a day in their kingdom and then leave when I please. It feels like a betrayal to come up for air. — Leslie Jamison

You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it. — Pleasefindthis

All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone. — William Cullen Bryant

As far as I am concerned, eight years of the corrupt Obama administration was eight years too much. — Steven Magee

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. — Eli Pariser

Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your dreams are supported and safe in his airspace, as well as supporting him in the same way when he needs it. — Sean Stephenson

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. — Pablo Picasso

We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and uncomprehended fabric. Anyone with even a vague consciousness of this whole is alarmed at how such remorselessly selfish and narrow interests - patriotism, chauvinism, ethnic, religious, and racial hatreds - can in fact lead to mass destructiveness. The world simply cannot afford this many more times. — Edward W. Said

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions! — Israelmore Ayivor

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people. — Hansie Cronje

Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice? — Richard Robbins

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so. — Ben Sherwood