Marenghi Munchkin Quotes

#1. The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Henry Taylor

#2. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#3. I held her as she wept. I stroked her hair, loose and slightly matted. 'Stay here with me. Or let me come with you.' She pulled me down to kiss her. Warm. Briny. 'I love you,' she said, her lips still against mine. But it meant no.

Lily King

#4. Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. The closest he got to being Prince Charming was being a Principe della Mafia, but there was nothing remotely romantic about that.

J.M. Darhower

#6. People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell ...

Charles Lee

#7. He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Francis Bacon

#8. There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

Franz Kafka

#9. The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

James Thurber

#10. I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

Jesse Robredo

#11. They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

Nina Bangs

#12. But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.

Sebastian Faulks

#13. a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor

Matthew Hughes

#14. A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

Elizabeth McCracken