Malacanang Holiday Quotes & Sayings

Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close to abolishing the very idea of principle. — Timothy Snyder

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world. — Jason Ellis

The street looks like the set of a ghost town in an old western movie, but there are eyes everywhere. — Vikki Wakefield

Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species. — Kresley Cole

We are frequently being reminded that no criticism or teaching is ever completely politically "innocent." True, but should we accept the swing to the indoctrination of an unqualifiedly negative attitude, which fosters a sense of alienation, of being a powerless victim? And should we permit a simplistic view of "power" to trigger simplistic notions of alternatives and processes of social change? — Louise M. Rosenblatt

Always be independent. — Irin Carmon

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true. — Neil Gaiman

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end. — Donald Barthelme

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row. — J.D. Salinger

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling

We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con! — Bruce McDonald

It costs a lot of money to be rich. — Peter Boyle

Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs. — Julian Barnes

I love playing the bad girl. — Kristin Renton