Monsoon Theme Quotes

#1. He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants

Jeanne DuPrau

#2. My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,

Shane Koyczan

#3. I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

Gary Shteyngart

#4. What we need is a nuke. - Ash
I knew I'd forgotten something. - Parvati

Sarwat Chadda

#5. At home I sometimes ran for fun, to play with Gerad or just to feel the ache of exertion.

Kiera Cass

#6. You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. When I was 5, he said, my family forgot & left me at the fair. I wandered around in the bright sounds & smells of hot sawdust & cotton candy for hours. It was already too late by the time my parents found me.
I haven't been fit for decent society since.

Brian Andreas

#8. This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Victor Hugo

#9. It's only human to think about the the 'what might have beens'. But it doesn't change what really is. And if we get lost in things that aren't, we lose sight of what's right in front of us.

Dan Skinner

#10. The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.

Vasily Grossman

#11. In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Elliott Abrams

#13. I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#15. The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Christopher Hitchens