Bagos Quotes & Sayings

The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Still, you consoled yourself. You were not quite at the end of the story, at that terrible flyleaf, blank like a shuttered window: there were still a few pages under your thumb, still to be sought and treasured. — Sofia Samatar

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress. — Spencer W. Kimball

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian. — Ildar Abdrazakov

Logic won't change an emotion but action will. — Zig Ziglar

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much. — Emily Giffin

I don't remember this earlier,' said Tuck.
'No?' said Robin in a neutral voice, and Tuck was too busy to pursue it, but merely bound it up and told him it was time for him, too, to try to sleep. Robin never had to tell anyone of his meeting, weaponless and with an armful of dead branches to break up for firewood, with one of Guy's men. The next day, when the burying began, no one questioned the body of another mercenary. — Robin McKinley

We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. — Natalie Cole

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days. — Atul Gawande

[Of the Bagos:] Like the Moros in the south, they are our brothers. We must recognize their belongingness to Filipinas, their willingness to fight for her.
-The Cripple — F. Sionil Jose

From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two - the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of "pure race" - and therefore one occasionally found a decent fellow among the camp guards. — Viktor E. Frankl

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do. — Michael Martin Hammer

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. — John Prendergast

That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it. — John Burnside

For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler! — Samuel Laman Blanchard