Michael Concepcion Quotes & Sayings

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. — Ayn Rand

Divine self is holy being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt ... ! — Alan Dean Foster

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. — Ben Marcus

This wasn't how their story was supposed to go. This wasn't what she dreamed of. And yet, everything had changed. — Laila Blake

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach

I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily. — Tessa Dare

born with a book in her mouth. — Jean Sasson

Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal system drew up vicious punishments for sudras seeking learning. (In those days, that meant learning the Vedas.) If a sudra listens to the Vedas, said one of these laws, 'his ears are to be filled with molten tin or lac. If he dares to recite the Vedic texts, his body is to be split'. That was the fate of the 'base-born'. The ancients restricted learning on the basis of birth. In a modern polity, where the base-born have votes, the elite act differently. Say all the right things. But deny access. Sometimes, mass pressures force concessions. Bend a little. After a while, it's back to business as usual. As one writer has put it: When the poor get literate and educated, the rich lose their palanquin bearers. — P.Sainath

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero — Umar Hassan

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis