Conte De Monte Cristo Quotes

#1. At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron De Montesquieu

#2. Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

Renae A. Sauter

#3. My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

Katherine Dunham

#4. Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why?
because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do.

Paul Auster

#5. Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

David Amram

#6. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative hidden in every positive. Life is complicated,

Amish Tripathi

#7. He has demonstrated his own weakness: an inability to read a novel on its own terms. All he knows is judgment,

Azar Nafisi

#8. When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Loren Eiseley

#9. Should I divulge that she adored soldiers? She was mad about them. Whenever she caught sight of a soldier, she would think, trembling with excitement: is he going to murder me?

Clarice Lispector

#10. I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

Edward P. Jones

#11. I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

Jacob Epstein

#12. Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts.

Matthew A. Petti