Istak Quotes & Sayings

It is what one really owns in the end, a name.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

Don Jacinto did not reply; perhaps he understood that there was no measure for love of country except in sacrifice, and why ask the poor for more sacrifices? It was the comfortable, the rich like himself
although Istak did not put it this way
who should express it with their wealth. The poor had only their lives to give.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

In death, all men are brothers.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And - like it or not - I still think about her every single day. — Harlan Coben

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Regardless of the truth - your perspecitve is your reality, unfortunately there may not be anyone else with the same perspective. — Larry Sheridan

How many funerals had he attended, how many open graves had he seen, watched the coffins eased down, or sometimes just a frayed mat in which the corpse was bundled, the feet sticking out, the soles white and sometimes still specked with dirt if he was a farmer and could not afford slippers, least of all shoes.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn. — Roger McGuinn

Models are back to what they were in the '70s: clothes hangers. — Paulina Porizkova

And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way. — Gia Coppola

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy! — Daniel Radcliffe

All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

But all men die
as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose

I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family
this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision.
-Istak — F. Sionil Jose