The majority of profit has nothing to do with our benifit, hence the battle is lost enduring the war...
MONK FROST Ignorance is not bliss, but a blindfold.
MONK FROST My parents taught me well,they spanked me every once in awhile.
MONK FROST Opinions are for fools who guess.
MONK FROST The largest tragedy is our apathy.
MONK FROST As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy languish.
MONK FROST As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy langiuish.
MONK FROST To assume is to know less than nothing.
MONK FROST Life is the battle fought against stife.
MONK FROST "To care about another's opinion of myself, I would first need to care about it!
MONK FROST Crude as oil is our responsibility.
MONK FROST Pride belongs to the lion's share.
MONK FROST Tonight we dream, about the past, and a better tomorrow.
MONK FROST Common sense is for our lack of wisdom.
MONK FROST Life is the battle fought against strife.
MONK FROST Truth is simple as the fact we ignore.
MONK FROST Wisdom is for the few whom realize the difference.
MONK FROST Frail the human's race.
MONK FROST Stare into a mirror through a single pane of glass Adore the reflection for the image will soon pass
MONK FROST I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
MEREDITH MONK I've never had an empty house. Ever.
MEREDITH MONK Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and...
MEREDITH MONK Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and...
MEREDITH MONK When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
MEREDITH MONK I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did...
MEREDITH MONK As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're ...
MEREDITH MONK I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actua...
MEREDITH MONK Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going d...
MEREDITH MONK It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to...
MEREDITH MONK When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to...
MEREDITH MONK She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It...
MEREDITH MONK I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but...
MARIA MONK All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by...
MARIA MONK He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. T...
DEVON MONK He's a perfectionist. He's laid back, but when you do something wrong he'll tell you about it.
MARCUS MONK All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
THELONIOUS MONK He tried to put it out, but when he realized it was bigger than he was he called the fire department...
ANTHONY MONK My biggest fear was Antoine was trapped in his room. Those video games can be hypnotic.
ANTHONY MONK On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK It's the Coliseum - we know that. We just try to treat it like another game. If you want to be the b...
MARCUS MONK Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.
THELONIOUS MONK Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
THELONIOUS MONK It's so surreal it's hysterical.
SOPHIE MONK Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wishe...
MARIA MONK After about a month, the aches and pains are gone, but then the homesickness starts to set in. You'v...
GARY MONK This year's county meet will be one of the most competitive in many years. The dedication of so many...
CATHI MONK This was an absolutely elite field (of athletes). To have that many athletes finish in the top three...
CATHI MONK People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the...
MARIA MONK I ended up donating $100.
DAVID MONK My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK You need to ask the right questions, you need to make sure and get references from them, for local p...
DAVID MONK depending on the size of the storm, 3 weeks to 3 months, sometimes we've stayed as long as 6 months.
DAVID MONK A lot of people have a romantic ideal of what it's going to be like. They don't expect that the weat...
GARY MONK There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels...
GARY MONK We weren't just learning anything new, we were rusty. But now we're just ready to get out there for ...
MARCUS MONK Teams won't know if we're throwing the ball or running, and it is going to be harder for them to pre...
MARCUS MONK Once we get on the same page we'll be able to do some big things. This offense gives an opportunity ...
MARCUS MONK It's different from last year, ... You had to improvise with Matt, but with these quarterbacks - thr...
MARCUS MONK Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.
DEVON MONK So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no a...
MARIA MONK Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't...
DEVON MONK Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art...
MEREDITH MONK I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.
SOPHIE MONK I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she...
DEVON MONK I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the id...
SUE MONK KIDD We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in wr...
SUE MONK KIDD The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth...
SUE MONK KIDD I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides...
SUE MONK KIDD As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as ...
SUE MONK KIDD Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to ...
SUE MONK KIDD There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of &#...
SUE MONK KIDD I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, ...
SUE MONK KIDD With pencil, you can always erase.
SUE MONK KIDD I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
SUE MONK KIDD I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it...
SUE MONK KIDD There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreduc...
SUE MONK KIDD And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just ...
SUE MONK KIDD There is nothing perfect...only life.
SUE MONK KIDD People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
SUE MONK KIDD On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's righ...
SUE MONK KIDD YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...
SUE MONK KIDD My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spiri...
SUE MONK KIDD Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinte...
SUE MONK KIDD Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
SUE MONK KIDD Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted...
SUE MONK KIDD I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ...
SUE MONK KIDD If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
SUE MONK KIDD I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to...
SUE MONK KIDD I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not con...
SUE MONK KIDD I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us d...
SUE MONK KIDD I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separa...
SUE MONK KIDD I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them....
SUE MONK KIDD I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other ...
SUE MONK KIDD Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of ...
SUE MONK KIDD The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to yo...
SUE MONK KIDD Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I d...
SUE MONK KIDD Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footste...
SUE MONK KIDD I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave...
SUE MONK KIDD The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body k...
SUE MONK KIDD There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years o...
SUE MONK KIDD The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EME...
SUE MONK KIDD He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God ...
SUE MONK KIDD Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're he...
SUE MONK KIDD That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a...
SUE MONK KIDD Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now an...
SUE MONK KIDD Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invent...
SUE MONK KIDD I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, a...
SUE MONK KIDD For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at ...
SUE MONK KIDD I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
SUE MONK KIDD Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest ...
SUE MONK KIDD People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain languag...
SUE MONK KIDD When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the ris...
SUE MONK KIDD Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear...
SUE MONK KIDD The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ...
SUE MONK KIDD The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our cap...
SUE MONK KIDD I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repos...
SUE MONK KIDD Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...
SUE MONK KIDD I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to ...
SUE MONK KIDD In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to...
SUE MONK KIDD ...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, ...
SUE MONK KIDD Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
T...
SUE MONK KIDD I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...
SUE MONK KIDD I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was a...
SUE MONK KIDD It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my...
SUE MONK KIDD You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
SUE MONK KIDD Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
SUE MONK KIDD Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boat...
SUE MONK KIDD You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it fr...
SUE MONK KIDD In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with som...
SUE MONK KIDD I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
SUE MONK KIDD It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
SUE MONK KIDD The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
SUE MONK KIDD You gotta imagine what's never been.
SUE MONK KIDD Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your e...
SUE MONK KIDD There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the ...
SUE MONK KIDD Sunset is the saddest light there is.
SUE MONK KIDD When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live,...
SUE MONK KIDD I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee ...
SUE MONK KIDD Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women m...
SUE MONK KIDD After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.
SUE MONK KIDD I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, ...
SUE MONK KIDD It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happen...
SUE MONK KIDD Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
SUE MONK KIDD We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with ...
SUE MONK KIDD I believe in the goodness of imagination.
SUE MONK KIDD When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?
SUE MONK KIDD Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
SUE MONK KIDD I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
SUE MONK KIDD At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was par...
SUE MONK KIDD A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
SADIE FROST I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
SADIE FROST It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reas...
SADIE FROST My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
SADIE FROST When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my dau...
SADIE FROST I haven't done an international film for a long time.
SADIE FROST I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest s...
SADIE FROST Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
SADIE FROST By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
SADIE FROST I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
SADIE FROST I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I'...
SADIE FROST I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. B...
SADIE FROST I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my...
SADIE FROST When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. ...
SADIE FROST I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
SADIE FROST I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, ...
SADIE FROST Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
SADIE FROST There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to ...
SADIE FROST I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
SADIE FROST At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to d...
SADIE FROST I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
SADIE FROST I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Wars...
SADIE FROST I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious...
SADIE FROST I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
SADIE FROST I'm a strong woman.
SADIE FROST Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST