Monsters Quotes - Page 27

• What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspiration, Men, Novelty

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.133, Letcetera Publishing

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Necks, Elbows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Winter, Secret

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• You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Baby, Order, Way

  "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.

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• Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

  Anais Nin

  Self, World, Demon

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Strong, Negative, Sacred

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• To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

  Byron Katie

  Looks, Nightmare, Universe

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

  Brad Meltzer

  Thinking, Evil, Littles

  Brad Meltzer (2009). “The Book of Lies”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Pieces

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Night, Devil

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• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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• Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  People, Fame, Worst

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• My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Father, Cutting, My Family

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• We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves.

  John J. Geddes

  Fear, Dark

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• The monster London laugh at me.

  Abraham Cowley

  Laughing, London

  Abraham Cowley, Richard Hurd, Thomas Sprat (1772). “Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In 2 Vol”, p.129

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Dragons, Champion

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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• I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

  Martin Buber

  Peace, War, Advice

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• I think the hardest person to love is yourself
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  You carry your flaws like burdens
  And you feel them on your skin
  The words you shouldn't have said
  Still echo in your head
  So you keep quiet
  Your mistakes, like monsters
  They haunt you
  And you put them to sleep every night
  The words you should've said
  Still echo in your head
  I bet you'd give yourself a chance
  If you were someone else instead

  Yara

  Mistake, Mean, Sleep

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• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Evil, Giving

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• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  Iggy Azalea

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Bells

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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Learning, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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