Monmouth College Quotes & Sayings

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. — Richard Holbrooke

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters. — Dave Matthews Band

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't ... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of ... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean? — Annie Parisse

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it. — E.W. Howe

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing. — Darl McBride

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. — Virginia Woolf

I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag. — Hugh Jackman

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian. — Booker T. Washington

The door opens behind me, and I'm so busted. Jamie towels off his hair. He looks down at the mattress. "Never thought of that," he says. The towel lands on our unused desk chair, and then he yanks his mattress down, too. — Sarina Bowen