Monica Furlong Quotes

#1. Convenience is the American way.

Cheech Marin

#2. People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Monica Furlong

#3. Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

Luc Delahaye

#4. All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

Monica Furlong

#5. Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

Justin Bieber

#6. It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

Monica Furlong

#7. Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Adair

#8. Love can't exist without happiness. Happiness can't be spontaneous
without love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

Monica Furlong

#10. They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

James Stockdale

#11. His guilt is my ticket to the latest and greatest. A guy adapts.

Lurlene McDaniel

#12. Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#13. What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

Monica Furlong

#14. As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

Steve Inskeep

#15. If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

Monica Furlong

#16. I love you, Andie Marks MacKenzie. I'm not letting you go.

Elle Casey

#17. Peanut: Come here puppet boy... make your daddy talk!

Jeff Dunham

#18. Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered.

Monica Furlong

#19. What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Monica Furlong

#20. The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

Kevin Nealon

#21. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Allan Nevins