Defensor 3 Quotes & Sayings

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country. — George B. McClellan

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives. — Jodi Picoult

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

I eat death threats for breakfast! — Miriam Defensor Santiago

In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Marsilius of Padua, whose Defensor Pacis in 1324 was a forthright assertion of the supremacy of the state. — Barbara W. Tuchman

College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me. — Jeff Cunningham

The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.' — Miriam Defensor Santiago

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less. — Nick Rahall

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud. — Langston Hughes

As I drifted off to sleep, I could hear him breathing, and that definitely helped me relax. — Amanda Hocking

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play. — August Wilson

In my approaching old age, I am now supposed to share with you what life has taught me, and in the end to encapsulate for you what is the meaning of life. From where I am now, I find that these conundrums are easily answered. First, life teaches us that, whether we perceive it as predestined or as random, it is beyond any person's control. Second, there is no template for the meaning of life. Instead, the meaning of life is what you choose to make it mean. In making your choice, when you reach my age, your journey becomes an affirmation of the warning that life is a consequence of our moral choices. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward. — Wes Anderson

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power — Miriam Defensor Santiago