Monkish Quotes

#1. The way the floors of the library became progressively less social as you worked your way up. The first floor was a meat market. The top was monkish.

Sloane Crosley

#2. Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

David Hume

#3. Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept. A monkish thought that he dismissed.

Kate Atkinson

#4. Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments ... At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#6. There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Immanuel Kant

#7. In the gaunt, brown face in the mirror - unseen since late September - the blue eyes in a monkish skull seem eerily clear, but this is the face of a man I do not know.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. Context is everything.

A.D. Garrett

#9. No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do ...

Thomas L. Friedman

#10. Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

Liu Yang

#11. There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

Ty Segall

#12. When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Terry Hayes

#13. I'm a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside.

Smith Wigglesworth

#14. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me (Jer. 32:40b). That is a different kind of fear from the one that startles you. God promises to put it in you - not to shake and undermine your assurance, but to guard and maintain it.

John Flavel

#15. Wanting to connect doesn't make you needy
it makes you human.

Dia Reeves

#16. I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Lake Bell

#17. She's standing above me the goddess of death, black lips and cold hands.

Kendare Blake