Aplenty Old Quotes & Sayings

Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. — Gaston Caperton

Man is a thought-adventurer. — D.H. Lawrence

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence. — Alan Watts

perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.

It is the very first thing that you see.
Its power is blinding at first,
anon it opens our eyes
to the allure of the world.

Each moment it breathes life into us,
warms our souls and colors our skin.

At gloaming it seems to wane,
while it privily awaits a time
to give birth to a new circle of life. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law! — Henryk Sienkiewicz

All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyone mentions New Hampshire, that squirrel is always what I think of. I bet I've thought about that squirrel a million times. — Wally Lamb

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes. — Jim Yong Kim

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World. — Kishore Mahbubani

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. — Leo Tolstoy

The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn't going to stop until she'd killed them all. — Anam Iqbal

Charlotte decided to change the subject. "You wouldn't believe what goes in these things." She offered her perfumed wrists. "Here, tell me which scent you prefer. Lilies and whale vomit, or lemon balm and beaver's arse. — Tessa Dare

The Greeks had had no clear notion of it. For them the future had been indeterminable. In Aristotle's teaching, a man could never say for certain if there would be a sea battle tomorrow. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe