Ampie Acebedo Quotes & Sayings

Man is not mind, he is soul. — Swami Vivekananda

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words. — Madeleine L'Engle

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce. — Shinzo Abe

I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better. — Sally Brampton

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad

Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits. — Dov Davidoff

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now. — Will.i.am

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin. — Lee Strobel

If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it. — Nicholas Sparks

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly — Greg Chappell

Not that I could really be a sacrifice in this makeshift panic room. But I would someday. I wouldn't have to look for it, I wouldn't have to even think about it. At some point in our future an opportunity would arrive where I could step up to the plate. When the time came, I would know what to do. I would save their lives like they saved mine. I believed that with everything in me. — Rachel Higginson

I run through all the positive character qualities in my mind, and assign myself a number from 1-10 on where I think I am on each. Surprisingly I score tens on each one until the last one, confidence, where I score myself a one. — Jarod Kintz

I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the volatile world of the gynaeceum with a detached eye. The Forbidden City had buried my youth, and in the monastery, I had died and come back to life. Friends, enemies and mistresses had all disappeared. I was a ghost from a lost world, still going from one season to the next and still living for one man alone. — Shan Sa

You aren't lacking the thing that makes a person a person. You have too much of it. You don't always know what to do with it or you get clogged with it
but it's there. It's there inside of you. I see it all shifting through you, in your eyes, and it's all real. It's
all there, there's just too much for you to deal with sometimes. — K. Sterling

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking
that got you into those problems in the first place. — Albert Einstein