quotes about Monica

“Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.”

“None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.”

“I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.”

“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.”

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

“I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.”

“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly”

Source : "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

“Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”

“When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.”