Pilipino Quotes & Sayings

The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and our own curious fatalism...He describes us as a complex nation of cynics, descendants of warring tribes which were baptized and colonized to death by Spaniards and Americans, as a nation betrayed and then united only by our hunger for glamour and our Hollywood dreams. — Jessica Hagedorn

ITS Not Easy to Break Someone that is Satified with what They Have.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. — Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster Of Love

Everyone would believe her because at the back of their minds, everyone thinks that twin brothers and sisters grow up magnetized towards each other, the prince at the foot of Rapunzel's tower before the tower is even built, the lover you can get at all the fucking time, the one who is you but a girl, or you but a boy, whose bed you know as well as your own. How could you endure that without falling in love? The question is, were they born in love with each other, these twins, or did it blossom? At any rate it's already happened, the onlookers agree. It must have. Ask them when they fell. The brother and sister say no, no, it's nothing like that, but what they mean is that they can't remember when. — Helen Oyeyemi

Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go. — Ajahn Chah

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in. — Herbert

We're thanking God. Without him, we wouldn't have made it. — George Harris

Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago - she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn't stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren't mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and "peach colored" for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal. — Kiersten White

If the truth cannot bear the scrutiny of candlelight, what will it do if exposed to the sun? — Jeff Wheeler

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. — Tony Randall

Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior. — Morihei Ueshiba

Time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. — Betty Smith

History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history. — Rei Lemuel Crizaldo

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God. — Harold Warner