Monn Quotes

#1. What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

Sylvia Thompson

#2. That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.

Peter Monn

#3. You're not meant to be alone. You're meant to be with me.

Raine Miller

#4. Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.

Carew Papritz

#6. That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

Charles Inglis

#7. Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Saadi

#8. He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw.

Peter Monn

#9. I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

Alan Alda

#10. The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.

Jan Tschichold

#11. I liked watching more than I liked being part of it and for the first time I realized that it was OK to just be an observer. Some of us were actors and some of us were the audience. Both were important roles.

Peter Monn

#12. Sometimes it was easier to stay and suffer for the short term than to have a permanent scar reminding you of the past.

Peter Monn

#13. Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

James C. Collins

#14. I think it's funny how people say what dead people would want, as if they would know.

Peter Monn

#15. Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection.

Peter Monn

#16. Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate,regret or fear.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.

Kevin DeYoung

#18. Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you.

Peter Monn

#19. Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

Ryan Lilly

#20. Parents always thought if they could get on your level then that allowed them secret passage into your world when in reality, they were just manipulating you the whole time.

Peter Monn

#21. And then I would cry, because even though boys don't cry, I did.

Peter Monn

#22. I smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. Sometimes pain likes to be alone.

Peter Monn