Monifa Quotes & Sayings

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. — Maria Mitchell

I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I'm afraid I already knew that about you. — Marissa Meyer

I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed.
This is history, and it is also the truth. — Andrew Smith

When we discover that someone we trusted can be trusted no longer, it forces us to reexamine the universe, to question the whole instinct and concept of trust. For a while, we are thrust back onto some bleak, jutting ledge, in a dark pierced by sheets of fire, swept by sheets of rain, in a world before kinship, or naming, or tenderness exist; we are brought close to formlessness. — Adrienne Rich

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. — Winston Churchill

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. — Eric S. Raymond

When Christ becomes all you need, you will find happy all around you, because he never disappoints. — Hayley DiMarco

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it. — Flannery O'Connor

He loved her with all his soul, but in his own way, which was the correct way. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon