Best Monstrous Proverbs
232 Monstrous quotes by 185 unique authors
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But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in…
— Joan D. Vinge
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By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)
— Eckhart Tolle
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What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the…
— David Mitchell
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms…
— Veronica Roth
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Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would…
— Laini Taylor
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When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
— George Orwell
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You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People…
— George R. R. Martin
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It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side?…
— Alan Moore
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The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.
— Cheryl Strayed
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…how monstrous the people you loved could be.
— Marisha Pessl
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he…
— Holly Black
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What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
— Winston Churchill
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
— Agnes Repplier
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That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel…
— John Logan
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.…
— Noam Chomsky
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Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things…
— Michael Leunig
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only…
— Graham Greene
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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but…
— Anthony Holden
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Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more…
— David Korten
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career…
— Randy Quaid
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
— Oscar Wilde
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Absolutely anything is Necessary is a part of this dream, just as non-Knowledge is the Absolute Truth of Knowledge, which we will never find out…
— Sorin Cerin
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Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music.…
— Grandmaster Flash
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