Macapagal President Quotes & Sayings

Go free those held captive, and free the souls who are bound in the darkness." -Driscoll — Brittany L. Engels

As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again. — Marya Hornbacher

My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers. — Kathy Sierra

I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president can be as strong as she wants to be. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving. — Timothy Zahn

Listening to Eminem makes me feel like a badass. Or at least as though I have the potential for badassery. I mean, the way he sings, it's like he'd probably punch out a puppy if it looked at him wrong. Obviously I'm not glorifying animal cruelty here, I'm just saying, I could use some of that attitude. — Hannah Harrington

The more I know you, the more I want to know you more. — Roy Lessin

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not. — Jack Nicholson

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real. — Thomas Ligotti

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves
I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing. — Bob Mould

I'm not saying it's safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don't believe that sun is bad for you. — George Hamilton

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. — Paulo Coelho

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. — Benjamin Disraeli

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core
the fountain
of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") — Audre Lorde

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes. — Michael Wilbon