Moniz Family Hawaii Quotes

#1. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

M.J. Ryan

#2. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#3. I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Kristin Davis

#4. Do they think their life would be over if I wasn't here?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#5. You can't get beyond what you have never been in.

Audrey Austin

#6. My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

Robert Benchley

#8. We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#9. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

Umberto Eco

#10. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value ...

Jonathan Franzen

#11. Okay. I'll admit, I slept or doodled through most of my classes. I have no idea who you're talking about.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Raymond Depardon

#13. The past is filled with pain,
the present with trouble,
and the future with opportunity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. My name is Stuart, and I remember everything.

Julian Barnes

#15. Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

Pierre De Ronsard