Monserrate Plant Quotes & Sayings

I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family. — Miley Cyrus

Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. — D.H. Lawrence

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. — John Hines

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. — Archibald MacLeish

In a culture where bigger is always better and flashy is always more effective, Jesus beckons each of us to plainly, humbly, and quietly focus our lives on people. — David Platt

Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life. — Corey Haim

He remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts. — William Faulkner

But most Canadians, like most Americans, have a shockingly poor grasp of their own history. Dates, people, the large and small nuances of events have all been reduced to the form and content of Classic Comics. This isn't a complaint. It's an acknowledgment that people are busy with other things and generally glance at the past only on holidays. Given our hectic schedules, the least I can do is to provide a little historical background so no one will feel left out when our story gets complicated. — Thomas King

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. — Diogenes Laertius

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. — Miguel De Cervantes

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail. — William Friedkin

Thorns do not diminish a rose's beauty. — Matshona Dhliwayo