Roniel Tolentino Quotes & Sayings

Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep. — Luther Burbank

The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation. — Wendell Phillips

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country. — Bashar Al-Assad

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them. — Bernadette McDonald

Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played out again and again until life is nothing more than a melo-dramatic soap opera. Until you regard the birth and death of other people with no more emotion than the wilted cut flowers you throw away. — Chuck Palahniuk

Think about the work you already do. Is it meaningful & challenging? Are you appreciated & recognized for what you're doing? — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with "good" bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go "bad", and those with "bad" bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have "good" bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle. — Golda Poretsky

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence ... you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works. — Donald Rumsfeld

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices. — Ann Rinaldi

The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights. — Jerry Spinelli

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him. — Richard Whately

I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there. — Bregje Heinen

To arrive at sex, you first have to undo the zip of the girl's dress. And between zip and sex lay a process in which twenty- maybe thirty- subtle decisions and judgements had to be made — Haruki Murakami

His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had. — Jeffrey Eugenides