Madlangbayan Brothers Quotes & Sayings

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr. — John Green

A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me! — M.R. James

The work of memory collapses time. — Walter Benjamin

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be hard enough in this odd world we have been born into. We have to bear witness to moral principles which the world owned yesterday and has begun to turn its back on today. We have to disapprove of some of the things our neighbors do, without being stuffy about it; we have to be charitable towards our neighbors and make great allowances for them, without falling into the mistake of condoning their low standards and so encouraging them to sin. Two of the most difficult and delicate tasks a man can undertake; and it happens, nowadays, not only to priests, to whom it comes as part of their professional duty, but to ordinary lay people...So we must know what are the unalterable principles we hold, and why we hold them; we must see straight in a world that is full of moral fog. — Ronald Knox

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue. — Alex Ebert

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness. — Mason Cooley

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. — John Banville

Those who wish to sing always find a song. — Swedish Proverb

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance — Pope Francis

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the full dramatic character lurks the unforeseen possibility, the gift of disorder. — George Steiner

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air ... — Amy Johnson