Quotation Explorer - 'Roe'

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary. - Devin J. Monroe
Si conoces una familia funcional, no la conoces bien. - Andrés Roemer
Vivas to those who have fail’d!And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!And to those themselves who sank in the sea!And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known! - Walt Whitman
There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. - Amit Kalantri
When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself. - Theodore Roethke
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. - Bette Davis
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. - Matt Groening
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. - Matt Groening
I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn. - Matt Groening
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. - Randall Munroe, xkcd
If you were standing in the path of the beam, you would obviously die pretty quickly. You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics. - Randall Munroe
Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts. - Dr. Myles Munroe
This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening
If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes... - Andrew Solomon
In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived? - Ashwin Sanghi
The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. - Theodore Roethke
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. - Norman Mailer
Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. - Marilyn Monroe
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. - Anne Schroeder
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe
Un héroe es aquel que se levanta incluso cuando no puede. - Jared Leto
Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself. - Nikki Rowe
trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge - Chuck Palahniuk
All Superheroes are differently abled.All differently abled are Superheroes. - Mohith Agadi
Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose. - Lee Monroe
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe
Winter brings a colder palette with more heavy blue and violet, Fall has substantial more reddish and brown, Summer brings a variation of pastel colours and Spring fresh green and tangerine. - Siren Waroe
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? - Marilyn Monroe
I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. - Matt Groening
I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.] - Pieter van Musschenbroek
So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer. - Pope Benedict XVI
I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons. - Laura Bush
A mind too active is no mind at all. - Theodore Roethke
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. - Marilyn Monroe
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something. - Paul Gallico
Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen. - Katrina Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe
When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get. - Matt Groening
they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves - Don Marquis
Never apologize for how you chose to survive. - Deborah J. Monroe
A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know. - Jon Ronson
The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals. - Devin J. Monroe
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics. - Randall Munroe
Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. - Liza M. Wiemer
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. - Marilyn Monroe
With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers. - Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen
What grace I have is enough. - Theodore Roethke
Only Live Like You (OLLY) - Jeroen Saey
You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done. - Matt Groening
We can be heroes just for one day - David Bowie Heroes
The future historian will rank as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} Elizabeth Cady Stanton - him
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. - Matt Groening
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. - Marilyn Monroe
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. - Marilyn Monroe
It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!! - Robert Armstrong
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love. - Randy K. Milholland
Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili. - Marilyn Monroe
It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! - Matt Groening
If it doesn't have Siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair. - Matt Groening
It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART - K. Farrell St. Germain
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it. - Marilyn Monroe
You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Matt Groening
If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe. - Siren Waroe
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon
If I shake hands with anti-Me it will be the end of me. - Siren Waroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe
We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests. - Russ Thorne
Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that passion, that singular calling and expresses it with conviction. - Lori Stanley Roeleveld
I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
So... what was the reason to don't be social!???...Oh, thanks Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution for reminding me. - Deyth Banger
Doesn’t make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can. - Annie Roe Carr
What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying Let’s pretend. - Jennifer Froelich
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore. - Wouter Van Gastel
What's freedom for? To know eternity. - Theodore Roethke
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli
Dead men make convenient heroes because they cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides it’s easier to build a monument than to build a better world. - Rev. Dr. William Barber I
Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future. - Amit Kalantri
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. - Matt Groening
I have no heroes except flowers and children. - Marty Rubin
Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!— Russ Cargill - Matt Groening
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. - Marilyn Monroe
In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes. - Amit Kalantri
Can't let limits get ya. - John Froehner
Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world. - Amit Kalantri
los grandes amores -como los héroes- deben morir jóvenes - Carlos Franz
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos. - Matt Groening
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. - Matt Groening
Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. - Fr James Groenings
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! - Maya Angelou
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening
Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole." - Devin J. Monroe
No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. - Malcolm X
The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future. - A. G. Roemmers
We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace. - Paul Bamikole
Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess. - Craig Groeschel
The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. - Theodore Roethke
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt
Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix. - Matt Groening
We hunger for quiet times; we find in them a womb to renew our strength. - Virginia Ann Froehle
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. - Frida Kahlo
I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line. - Siren Waroe
I've been on a calender, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds. - Paul Cornell
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future. - Jomo Kenyatta
They will only care when you're gone. - Marilyn Monroe
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. - Nikolai Gogol
The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens. - Robert M. Price
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. - Marilyn Monroe
from Open HouseMy truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.Myself is what I wear:I keep the spirit spare. - Theodore Roethke
The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand? - Pat Schroeder
I may be different but i am beautiful. - Jayy Von Monroe
I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe
If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid. - Devin J. Monroe
Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here. - Amit Kalantri
The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow. - A. G. Roemmers
Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes. - Amit Kalantri
It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim; Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. - Habeeb Akande
...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford - Jack C. Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. - Marilyn Monroe
Every hour of every day spent with him, the slow slope of falling for this boy in more than just a carnal fashion has been like slowly pulling the strings on some great tapestry. Every day the weave becomes tighter, the picture clearer, everything more complete. - A.L. Davroe
It doesn't matter where you go in life it's who you have beside you - Jeroen Saey
Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny? - Lucy Monroe
Good leaders make heroes of others. - Mark Sanborn
Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes. - Amit Kalantri
But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism! - Matt Groening
You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things - Jeroen Saey
The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes. - Marcel Proust
You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly. - Dr. Myles Munroe
To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems - Matt Groening
When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson) - Matt Groening
I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect. - Krystyna Faroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there..." Closing his eyes, he then slumps against the wall, as if the words he has spoken has used up all his energy. - Robert Cormier
It is really hurting; how big media plagiarize everyday and no one judges them; The real heroes are those tiny and small self-funded websites and blogs that provide all primary data for them to survive and it will continue as far they exist - M.F. Moonzajer
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. - Matt Groening
Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them. - Cinda Williams Chima
Once I stopped worrying about what people would think when they heard my truth, my truth set me free. - Deborah J. Monroe
And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant. - Ralph Ellison
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow
The best way to solve a problem is not to think of it as a problem but just as a difficulty or a challenge. Technically, the obstacle is the same, but you'll be able to approach it with a positive attitude that sharpens the mind and beats a path towards more solutions in the future. - A. G. Roemmers
The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others. - Shawn M Mcnamara
it was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly - Alice Schroeder
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? - Matt Groening
Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love. - Theodore Roethke
If you feel alone, and if your heart is pure and your eyes still shine with the wonder of a child's, perhaps as you read these pages you'll find that the stars are smiling on you once more, that you can hear them as though they were five hundred million little bells. - A. G. Roemmers
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! - Matt Groening
Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. - Roel van Sleeuwen
Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real. - Lisa Schroeder
Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away. - Michael Grant
I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger - Richard Proenneke
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer. - Ronald Reagan
If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have to have jobs? - Matt Groening
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. - Marilyn Monroe
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell? - Matt Groening
I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff. - Matt Groening
Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet. - Amit Kalantri
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? - Theodore Roethke
I would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions. - Randall Munroe
Chill The Fuck Out (CTFO) - Jeroen Saey
Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. - Matt Groening
Donuts. Is there anything they can't do? - Matt Groening
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way - Sam Raimi
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. - Marilyn Monroe
The longer we delay in confronting the obstacle in our path, the bigger the difficulties grow and the smaller we become; or, to put it another way, the longer we drag a problem with us, the heavier it becomes. - A. G. Roemmers
Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them. - Amit Kalantri
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. - Robert Burns
Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership. - Bill George
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out. - Siren Waroe
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. - Marilyn Monroe
I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich. - Matt Groening
In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism - Amit Kalantri
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. - Marilyn Monroe
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? - Marilyn Monroe
I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer. - Devin J. Monroe
Really, there's only one way of changing the world, and that's by changing yourself. - A. G. Roemmers
I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made? - Devin J. Monroe
Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope. - Marilyn Monroe
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C.S. Lewis
I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win. - Lisa Schroeder
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.' - Marilyn Monroe
One must be careful not to allow himself fall into the trap of hero worship; we are to take counsel from men, emulate their courage, and godliness, but we are not allowed to worship them. Heroes are men, and men make mistakes. - Paul Bamikole
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. - Margaret Atwood
Uit deze belevenissen, die niemand ziet, bestaat de innerlijke, wezenlijke lijn van ons lot. Zulk een breuk en scheur groeit weer dicht, hij heelt en wordt vergeten, maar in de diepst verborgen hoek leeft en bloedt hij verder. - Hermann Hesse
We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self. - Madam Secretary
Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for - Myles Munroe
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. - Marilyn Monroe
Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Matt Groening
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. - Matt Groening
Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world. - Roel van Sleeuwen
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe
A smart girl leaves before she is left - Marilyn Monroe
Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired. - Amit Kalantri
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke
Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone. - Jazlyn Roehl
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. - Jim Morrison
If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably know who your best customers are. Make them a star on your site. Make those people your superheroes. - Jamison Stafford
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. - Matt Groening
May my silences become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke
Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs. - Fr James Groenings
To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you. - Robert Fanney
Love makes me naked;Propinquity's a harsh master;O the songs we hide singing to ourselves! - Theodore Roethke
In this life at least,Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well,Impervious heroes we are not… - Scott Hastie
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. - Amit Kalantri
Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes. - Amit Kalantri
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. - Marilyn Monroe
Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment. - Zack W. Van
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. - Marilyn Monroe
It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe. - Randall Munroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. - Marilyn Monroe
Without your stories, without your heroes and their awesome powers, how could you explain this, this here, this incomprehensible real that ever refuses to embrace any rule, any cliché besides the intransigent, pathetic truth that we all end, that no one comes back. - Tom King
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. - Brad Meltzer
Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes. - Harley King
Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here. - Randall Munroe
Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up. - Paul Clayton
A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals. - M.F. Moonzajer
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course - Marilyn Monroe
I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. - Marilyn Monroe
This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes. - Debasish Mridha
I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow. - Matt Groening
Someday when we're older, we'll learn who to trust. But heroes and saviors, can't save folks like us. - Kevin Dalton
People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know. - Dean M. Schroeder
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady - Marilyn Monroe
We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. - Steve Jobs
Born into thisInto hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to dieInto lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guiltyInto a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closedInto a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes... - Charles Bukowski
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? - Matt Groening
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. - Matt Groening
Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others. - Shannon L. Alder
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. - Darren Shan
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice. - Vironika Tugaleva
We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy. - Amy Zhang
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. - Matt Groening
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. - Marilyn Monroe
People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes. - Amit Kalantri
At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds - Dr. V. V. Rao
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! - Matt Groening
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - Matt Groening
Good things don't end in 'eum,' they end in 'mania'...or 'teria'. - Matt Groening
Be sure that whatever you are is you. - Theodore Roethke
You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker. - Jazlyn Roehl
Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. - Matt Groening
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. - Matt Groening
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. - Brooke Foss Westcott
As an artist, motive means opportunity - Siren Waroe
It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone so far. - Marilyn Monroe
I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did. - Carla H. Krueger
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. - Marilyn Monroe
I would rather live in a world where people shout, "This is wrong." than live in a world with superheroes saving the day. - ♥EJ <---
If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself.What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ?Leave them to progress so you can expand. - Myles Munroe
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in. - Justin Alcala
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. - Marilyn Monroe
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand - E.M. Tippetts
I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show. - Eileen Munroe
There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession. - Marcus Buckingham
The symbol of peace cannot be daunted by evil. I smile to show the pressure of heroes and to trick the fear inside of me. - Kouhei Horikoshi
The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes - George R.R. Martin
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe
Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse. - Theodore Roethke
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. - Marilyn Monroe
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. - Marilyn Monroe
Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave. - David Mahoney
Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."Beth: "what do you suggest?"Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying. - Lucy Monroe
If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV. - Matt Groening
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. - Marilyn Monroe
They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway. - Benedict J. Groeschel
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - Marilyn Monroe
All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer. - Matt Groening
Each artwork requires its own design - Siren Waroe
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. - Marilyn Monroe
Heroes give hope. - Amit Kalantri
Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever. - Marilyn Monroe
An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye. - Karl Schroeder
Dogs never bite me. Just humans. - Marilyn Monroe
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it. - Ambrose Bierce
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. - Henry David Thoreau
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? - Marilyn Monroe
I learn by going where I have to go - Theodore Roethke
I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day.The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am. - Theodore Roethke
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! - Matt Groening
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock
I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming water. - Theodore Roethke
The Temple-like structure at which our heroes seek answers has an interior environment more like a familiar tavern at which C. S. Lewis would be comfortable or, for that matter, at which Christ would be criticized for associating with sinners. - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are. - Shannon L. Alder
You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them. - Roel van Sleeuwen
What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Matt Groening
Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU. - Craig Groeschel
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes. - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here. - Matt Groening
Fear is stupid. So are regrets. - Marilyn Monroe
Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! - D.C. Akers
I do not laugh; I do not cry;I'm sweating out the will to die.My past is sliding down the drain;I soon will be myself again. - Theodore Roethke
There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. - David Brooks
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey
Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. - Katrina Monroe
Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day. - Heinrich Heine
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