Montinola Family Of Iloilo Quotes & Sayings

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies. — John W. Gardner

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. — Jonathan Mayhew

If you weren't humping, you were waiting. I remember the monotony. Digging foxholes. Slapping mosquitoes. The sun and the heat and the endless paddies. Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. But it was a strange boredom. It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders. You'd be sitting at the top of a high hill, the flat paddies stretching out below, and the day would be calm and hot and utterly vacant, and you'd feel the boredom dripping inside you like a leaky faucet, except it wasn't water, it was a sort of acid, and with each little droplet you'd feel the stuff eating away at important organs. You'd try to relax. You'd uncurl your fists and let your thoughts go. Well, you'd think, this isn't so bad. And right then you'd hear gunfire behind you and your nuts would fly up into your throat and you'd be squealing pig squeals. That kind of boredom. I — Tim O'Brien

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desires — Orison Swett Marden

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair. — Celia Thaxter

I'm trying to decide whether to tell you two to get a room or go barf in the trash can," Emma said. "I'm leaning toward the second choice. You are both getting way too weird. And gross."
Cal barked out a laugh and slid his fingers down my arm to entwine with mine. His touch, and Emma's comments, only made me blush more. Looks like Emma saw Cal lick my face after all.
Now that wasn't awkward or anything. — E.J. Stevens

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids. — Ruby Rose

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. — Will Durant

Waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger. — Susan Ee

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing. — Todd Strauss-Schulson

She reckons most of those models eat about one carrot a week, chew cotton wool like race horse jockeys to keep thin, and smoke cigarettes.
Apparently, they all look like crap by the time they are 30, and go out with the 'wrong' sort of men.. — Rae Earl

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued. — Mark Pincus