Joseph Monninger Quotes
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
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From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
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If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
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When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
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Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
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I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
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We use the coastline as much as the sea otters. And we take fish from the water, we swim in the water, surf in the water. And what's happening to the sea otter could very well be happening to a much larger picture than just the animals themselves.
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When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
