Reyes Tacandong Quotes & Sayings

[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'. — Dagmar Godowsky

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering? — May Sarton

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others. — John McCain

He knew this could turn out to be a very dangerous ploy if it backfired, but he also knew he had his best friend firmly on his side. If nothing else, he knew he could let her take all the blame and she'd do it. He'd owe her majorly - what else were best friends for but blackmail opportunities and owing giant favors, anyway - but she'd do it. — Jean Johnson

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection. — Rumi

You may be asking yourself at this very moment, Why isn't Stormie's husband writing this book? The answer is simple. He's just like you. He is a busy man, with places to go, people to see, work to do, a family to support, food to eat, a life to live, golf to play, ball games to watch, channels to flip, and a chronic lack of patience when it comes to writing. It's not that he doesn't pray. — Stormie O'martian

Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause. — Frank Partnoy

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. — John Owen

Responsiblity is the great developer of men. — Mary Parker Follett

She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before. — Harriet Evans

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. — George W. S. Trow

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again. — Khaled Hosseini

By "the Permanent Things" [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the great mysterious incorporation of the human race. — Russell Kirk

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. — Karen Joy Fowler