Filipinoness Quotes & Sayings

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible. — Tim O'Brien

Breakfast at Tiffany's was one of the earliest pictures to ask us to be sympathetic toward a slightly immoral young woman. Movies were beginning to say that if you were imperfect, you didn't have to be punished. — Sam Wasson

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices. — Linda Kaplan Thaler

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory. — Nicole Krauss

Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed. — Patrick Rothfuss

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. — Toba Beta

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. — Ronnie Milsap

Our relation, all round, exists
it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it — Henry James

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President — Will Rogers

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing. — Celine Dion

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. — Sammy Hagar

What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived? — Margaret Mitchell

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness. — Nick Joaquin

Why is your equation only for angels, Roger? Why can't we do something, down here? Couldn't there be an equation for us too, something to help us find a safer place?'
'Why am I surrounded,' his usual understanding self today, 'by statistical illiterates? There's no way, love, not as long as the mean density of strikes is constant. — Thomas Pynchon

There is a crowd outside the main door, talking softly about the death as if they don't want the dead man to know that he is gone. — Manu Joseph