Joseph Monninger Quotes
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
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I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
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The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
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The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
