Monitions Quotes

#1. Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Roger L'Estrange

#2. ...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.

Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

#3. And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

Minnie Louise Haskins

#4. I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

David Walton

#5. He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

Emanuel Lasker

#6. If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

Robbie Coltraine

#7. You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Luciano Pavarotti

#8. I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Ian Somerhalder

#9. Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.

David Arnold

#10. I guess we're all lonely in some way. - Oliver Stone

David Baldacci

#11. From these fragmented remains, one can glean that sore need drove him to seek the homeland of the Elderlings. His troubles are familiar ones; ships raided his coastline mercilessly.

Robin Hobb

#12. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Chad Smith

#15. We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#16. "Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Henry Beard

#17. Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.

Flannery O'Connor