Monna Quotes & Sayings

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity. — Condoleezza Rice

Julius rose to his feet. The towel dropped, showering cut brown hair over Monna Alessandra's elegant tiles. His hair, finely tailored, clung to a thick-boned face with slanting eyes and a blunt profile which would have looked well on a coin. Tobie, who had almost no hair, gazed at him sadly. — Dorothy Dunnett

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place. — James Wood

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? — Groucho Marx

When left alone with nothing but one's emotions and inner thoughts for company, the nocturnal world can be completely overpowering. — Fennel Hudson

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. — Eamon De Valera

You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won't find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman. — Harper Lee

How would you have done things differently if you were not afraid? — Ruchi Sanghvi

To write is a humiliation. — Edward Dahlberg

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future — Byron Katie