Monkey Mother Love Quotes & Sayings

Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety. — Moby

He had all along felt that he was, in his own words (which incidentally are also Heidegger's), 'on the fringe of being', with only one foot in life and with no right even to that. He felt that he was not really alive and that anyway he was of no value and had hardly the right to the pretension of having life. — R.D. Laing

Do all the other things, of course, the ambitious things - travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers (after first having them tested for monkey poop) - but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness. Do those things that incline you towards the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial. That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeare's, bright as Gandhi's, bright as Mother Teresa's. Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret, luminous place. Believe that it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits timelessly. — George Saunders

I am not the type of person who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to got back to the hotel. — Fran Lebowitz

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. — Dan Stevens

What is sure is what God has revealed. With that we can start our exploration. In our exploring what is sure is that what the Church has defined is true, what the Church has condemned is false: Christ established a Church that could do us this essential service. For most of us, exploration will be only the effort to understand as much as is thus certain. And it is immensely rewarding. — Frank Sheed

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday — Carrie Vaughn

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice. — Jeremy Stoppelman

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering. — Anne Lamott

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. — Henry Rollins

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm a Republican, by the way. — Charles Evers

Then what in your opinion is a good story?'
'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it. — Vikram Chandra

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work. — Sherman Alexie

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Love could be instant and unconditional but trust develops through time. You may not trust wholeheartedly while loving someone unconditionally. — Assegid Habtewold