Quirino Quotes & Sayings

I write, what I imagine — Lilian Quirino

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control. — Ronald Reagan

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — Alan Watts

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic. — Christopher Monckton

She glanced over her shoulder as she made her way into the restaurant, as though to make sure I was still waiting for her.
You crazy girl, don't you know I'd wait for you forever? — A Meredith Walters

This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts. — Tobias Wolff

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said — Joseph Campbell

Miracles can come and pass, we need to create space in our lives to invite and receive them. — Gary Edward Gedall

I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches. — Diahann Carroll

Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology. — Richelle E. Goodrich