Monethe Quotes & Sayings

We have forgotten what Thomas Jefferson told us in 1776: that we are endowed by the Creator "with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Not happiness, mind you, but its pursuit. By implication Jefferson warned that if you pursue happiness for someone else, you deny him the right to pursue it on his own. — John Rosemond

I think people want love in their lives. — Alicia Silverstone

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out? — Bill Maher

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing. — Drew Barrymore

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not. — Byron Katie

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives. — David Blunkett

Instead, Hester had been presented at court, — Sylvia Day

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble. — Miguel

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter

Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha! — Terry Pratchett

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. — Frederick Soddy

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy. — Margaret Mead

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time. — Pema Chodron

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. — John Malkovich

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it. — Doris Lessing