Quotes About Monstrosities

#1. Never forget the gender of mother earth. This planet is a body through which arterial tides pulse and surge, and within this fluid murk stir serpents, inchoate monstrosities of the amniotic id.

Robert Dunbar

#2. The stunning beauty of the waning day was a stark contrast to the horrors we'd just witnessed, as if nature itself wanted to wipe away the memory of those monstrosities.

L.D. Goffigan

#3. Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. When we attempt to reduce the infinitely precious to a number, monstrosities result. For

Charles Eisenstein

#5. What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Eric Hoffer

#6. I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.

Jerome Charyn

#7. These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.

Mike Bond

#8. Even monsters need to rest between monstrosities.

Michael Rowe

#9. But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

Tertullian

#10. Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

John L'Heureux

#11. One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

Joseph Rykwert

#12. Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

Samael Aun Weor

#13. Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.

Philip Larkin

#14. Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Jean Genet

#16. Brutal abnormalities - Hellish, grotesque monstrosities Who made us fall, one and all. They beat us black and blue - And too Their Fathers showed us things, Inhuman things - Forbidden things!

Daniel Torridon

#17. If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#18. In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

Barbara Hulanicki

#19. Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

August Spies

#20. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

Adolf Hitler

#22. People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#23. The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

Edward Forbes

#24. Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?

Frank Schaeffer

#25. Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

Raymond Chandler

#26. The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called "The White Mouse" by Nancy Wake (Sun

Kathryn J. Atwood

#27. Dedicated to:
You, with awe and love.
Than you for coming and finding me.
And for showing me the way.
It was the ride of a lifetime, the best I've ever had.

J.R. Ward

#28. Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.

Markus Zusak

#29. The sound of the fountain wove its way through the arches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#30. Sam glanced at him. "Feeling sorry for yourself, are you? I suppose you're allowed. I mean, look at how bloody awful your life is."
"Sarcasm doesn't become you," Griffin retorted.

Kady Cross

#31. Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

William Butler Yeats

#32. Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.

Milly Silver

#33. See the anger for what it is: fuel. Pissed-off people can accomplish a lot if they don't just spray their rage fuel all over the place

Augusten Burroughs

#34. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

John C. Maxwell

#35. All I could think was that he, too, was going to war; that he, too, was leaving Deyning, leaving my world. I'd only just found him, only just realized that the universe included someone named Tom Cuthbert and now he was about to disappear. It seemed already the war had found me.

Judith Kinghorn