Ibarra Quotes & Sayings

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra — Jose Rizal

No one pigeonholes us better than we ourselves do. — Herminia Ibarra

I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy. — Daria Snadowsky

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra.
"Almost seven years."
"Then you have probably forgotten all about it."
"Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it. — Jose Rizal

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness. — Albert Camus

Whatever my lot Thou has taught me to say
It is well it is well with my soul. — Horatio G. Spafford

It's nice when it's quiet. You become human then.'
'And what do people become if it's noisy,then?'
'They become objects, things. — Ayako Sono

I've met kids who haven't had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine. — Common

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. — Robert Kagan

The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it's God's way of keeping things fair. — Julie James

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important. — Herminia Ibarra

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group. — Rachel Bloom

The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. — William Bennett

(Raphael) "I know why you refuse me, Daylighter, and it is not out of some pretended sense of rejection. You are so involved with the Shadowhunters, you think you are one of them. We have seen you with them. Instead of spending your nights in the hunt, as you should, you spend them with Valentine's daughter. You live with a werewolf. You are a disgrace."
(Simon) "Do you act like this with every job interview? — Cassandra Clare

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5 — Herminia Ibarra

A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn — Robert Jordan