The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
Epicurus
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw
Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up,and smile for a satellite picture.
Steven Wright
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise...and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia
C.S. Lewis
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
Tracey Ullman
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Aldous Huxley
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
Mohammed Morsi
Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.
Ernest Hemingway
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Terry Pratchett
It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner
If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
Paulo Coelho
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylor
I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character
Thomas Jefferson
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure
Samuel Johnson
My angel, his name is Freedom, Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west. And fend you with his wing.
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
Bill Rancic
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
LL Cool J
I don't pay much attention to sports.
Jack Abramoff
She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Žmogus silpnas, tod?l visada bando nuo sav?s nusl?pti didži?j? Mirties ties?. Jis nesuvokia, jog tiktai ji skatina gyvenime atlikti pa?ius didžiausius darbus. Žmogus bijo nuklysti ? tams?, j? siaubingai g?sdina nežinomyb?, ir t? baim? ?manoma ?veikti tik nepamirštant, kad jo dienos suskai?iuotos. Žmogus nesupranta, jog, susitaik?s su Mirtimi, sugeb?t? ryžtis didesniems darbams, pasiekti nepalyginamai didesni? pergali? savo kasdien?je kovoje, nes neturi ko prarasti - Mirtis neišvengiama.
Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.
Steve Maraboli
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Wendy Liebman
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and c
Albert Einstein
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
John Clayton
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
Charles Dickens
Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.
Richard Ben-Veniste
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer
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