Monn Quotes & Sayings

That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome. — Peter Monn

Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you. — Peter Monn

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

I smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. Sometimes pain likes to be alone. — Peter Monn

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Parents always thought if they could get on your level then that allowed them secret passage into your world when in reality, they were just manipulating you the whole time. — Peter Monn

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun. — John Krasinski

Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us. — Simon Sinek

My life is a soap opera. — C.E. Starkweather

I liked watching more than I liked being part of it and for the first time I realized that it was OK to just be an observer. Some of us were actors and some of us were the audience. Both were important roles. — Peter Monn

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe ... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal. — Ray Bradbury

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings. — Carew Papritz

I think it's funny how people say what dead people would want, as if they would know. — Peter Monn

He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw. — Peter Monn

Sometimes it was easier to stay and suffer for the short term than to have a permanent scar reminding you of the past. — Peter Monn

And then I would cry, because even though boys don't cry, I did. — Peter Monn

Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection. — Peter Monn

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to. — David Levithan

I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do. — Mitt Romney