Patrick Monahan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.
-- Patrick Monahan

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My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.
-- Patrick Monahan

#Mother #Hair #Talking

The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
I want to chase the butterflies.
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Patrick Monahan famous quotes

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