Kwentong Bayan Quotes & Sayings

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values. — Georg Brandes

black beyond black — Blake Butler

The larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. — Harper Lee

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong. — Vilmos Zsigmond

Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs. — Winston S. Churchill

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable. — Theodore Dalrymple

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. — Anatole Broyard

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan

He hated singing other people's songs. But he was singing some of my favorites ... — Rachel Van Dyken