Representable Filipino Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books. — Andrew Smith

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. — Simon Kuper

the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek. — Michael Chabon

Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle. — Edward W. Robertson

You cannot buy trust,you have to earn it. — Munia Khan

Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone! — Catherynne M Valente

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because we owe it to ourselves. — Henry Hazlitt

The best bet you get is an even break. — Franklin P. Adams

If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail in moving our fellowmen is that we try to win them without first getting power with God. Jesus was in communion with His Father, and so He could be assured that His prayers were heard. We — D.L. Moody

First be the best and then be first — John Wooden

Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network. — Joe Green

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about. — Clive Owen

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. — Peter Marshall