Joaquin Manansala Quotes & Sayings

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. — Adam Phillips

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. — Emily Bronte

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece. — Laurie Holden

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wilds of life, without any certain direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation."
But my wife wasn't dead, merely absent. — Mordecai Richler

Only people who have known great pain have the capacity to learn magic. — Rick Riordan

And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires. — Terry Pratchett

This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." — Jon Stewart

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances. — Abraham Maslow

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details. — David E. Hoffman

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever. — Walt Whitman

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word intuition. — Isaac Asimov

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night! — J.R.R. Tolkien

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I could go back, I'd coach myself. I'd be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I'd be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us. — Lidia Yuknavitch