Monicka Hasan Quotes & Sayings

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. — B.H. Liddell Hart

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. — Alice McDermott

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt. — Faith Ringgold

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them. — George Earle Buckle

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. — Robin Wasserman

When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are. — Nick Bilton

if God's glory is the only all-satisfying reality in the universe, then to try to do good for people, without aiming to show them the glory of God and ignite in them a delight in God, would be like treating fever with cold packs when you have penicillin. The apostle Paul warns that I can "give all my possessions to feed the poor, and . . . deliver my body to be burned," and still "not have love" (1 Cor. 13:3). The final reason for this is that man is not the center of true virtue, God is. So — John Piper

Baseball life is a tough life on the family. — Nolan Ryan

He had the smilingest face she'd ever seen. — Rainbow Rowell

Many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves. — Terry Goodkind

Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn't mean you should. — Michael Nesmith

When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet ... This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations. — John Taylor