Effortless Tagalog Quotes & Sayings

My life is filled with ineffable miracles. — Debasish Mridha

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam — Maggie Stiefvater

I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case - the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free. — R.M. Ballantyne

Pope Francis says the name of God is mercy. Our name was mercy, too, until we put it away to become more productive, more admired and less vulnerable. We tend to forget it's still there. — Anne Lamott

... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. — Umberto Eco

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. — Thomas Jefferson

That's when she discovered that Todd had improvised on the menu she had made up. — Robin Jones Gunn

When it becomes serious, you have to lie. — Jean-Claude Juncker

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. — William Shakespeare

Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher. — Ivan Illich

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed. — Vanna Bonta

Stop watching me," she'd say all the time, a little smile on her face because she was watching me too.
"I can't help it," I'd reply "I'm fascinated by you, in love with you."
"Well, go be fascinated and in love with the TV, I'm trying to sort things out, it's not easy with you watching. — Dorothy Koomson

whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup. — Ruthie Knox

Okay, I said. But remember, you can't fix
everything in the world for everybody.
"However," said Ricky, "you can't do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven't
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times? — Mary Oliver

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue. — Etty Hillesum