Gawad Ng Quotes & Sayings

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress — Steve Grand

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity. — Lisa Cholodenko

Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it. — Abhishek Kumar

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world. — Ted Turner

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves? — Alain De Botton

We could work on our English outline," I say and almost can't contain the chuckle.
"Really? That's your idea of a hot date?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware we were on a 'hot date'" And this time I can't contain the chuckle when she cringes. "So, how hot would you like it? I'm capable of all levels of hotness, from Luc-warm to - and I'm being literal here - hotter than Hell. — Lisa Desrochers

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married — Virginia Woolf

You and I hear of sudden deaths and yet we imagine we shall not die suddenly. We cannot think God's wrath will be kindled in a little time and that He will take us away with a stroke. We get the idea that we shall die in our nests, with a slow and gradual death and have abundance of time for preparation. Oh, I beseech you, let no such delusion destroy your soul! "Kiss the Son now, lest He be angry in a little while and you perish from the way." Now bow before Him and receive His grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again. — Andrew Klavan

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball. — Gloria Whelan