Monitions Quotes & Sayings

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life. — Erwin McManus

Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a moral sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property
whether he had failed in business
if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another ... — Harriot Kezia Hunt

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices. — Adi Godrej

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. — Unknown Author 698

I watch him for a moment, waiting for him to expose those brilliant eyes to the world again. But he doesn't. After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he's fallen asleep. I — Marie Lu

I'm here for you kid. That's what friends are for. — Tahereh Mafi

And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods. — Julian Jaynes

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. — Hari Sreenivasan

...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society. — Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

On a Fine Morning
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solace?
Not from seeing
What is doing, suffering, being,
Not from noting Life's conditions,
Nor from heeding Time's monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream,
And in gazing at the gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.
This do I this heyday, holding
Shadows but as lights unfolding,
As no specious show this moment
With its iris-hued embowment;
But as nothing other than
Part of a benignant plan;
Proof that earth was made for man. — Thomas Hardy

Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil? — Frigyes Karinthy

I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are. — Natasha Leggero

For us ... you know, we're not The Beatles. — Bruce Johnston