Coren Aquino Quotes

I'm in love with you Coreen. Your name is embedded in my soul. Ang laking problema, hindi ba? Kaya sana mabaliw ka lang rin sakin para wala na tayong problem. So, I'm sorry, hindi kita iiwasan. Hindi kita lalayuan. I will forever be the pest in your life until you decide to love me back. ~ Jonaxx

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in. ~ Corazon Aquino

Poker is a shifty game played by shifty characters. Outside the two official card rooms in London, most games take place in illegal spielers with heavy rake money. Debts and revenges are rife, names are changed, multiple passports are not unheard of. The majority of regular players have no interest in advertising their lifestyle, their whereabouts or even their existence to tax inspectors, thieves, neighbours, creditors or old enemies. Television? You'd have to be a complete ice cream. ~ Victoria Coren

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity. ~ Corazon Aquino

Let's continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) will bring us not only 79 votes, but more than 79 (votes), ~ Corazon Aquino

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad. ~ Corazon Aquino

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ~ Corazon Aquino

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. ~ Alan Coren

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right. ~ Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor? ~ Benigno Aquino III

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. ~ Benigno Aquino III

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. ~ Corazon Aquino

I start referring to sums of money as a pony, a bottle, a carpet or a monkey, quite unselfconsciously. Probably sounds ridiculous in my posh voice. One time, in the £50 game at the Vic, I try to bet a cockle and (once the word has crashed against the accent barrier and slumped unconscious on the baize) it goes as a call. Stupid really, since I'm the only one who actually pronounces the 'ck' in the middle. But this is the language, it feels normal to use it. I can't sound any funnier than Bambos does when he bets 'sirillo'. Three, or three hundred, or three thousand = a carpet, because people used to get a carpet in their cell if they were jailed for three years or more. And there used to be a carpet manufacturer called Cyril Lord. So when Bambos, in his heavy Cypriot accent, bets 'a sirillo', everyone knows exactly what he means. ~ Victoria Coren

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. ~ Corazon Aquino

Don't worry about tomorrow, let it fix itself. Today has a problem of its own. ~ Kris Aquino

It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent. ~ Michael Coren

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox. ~ Alan Coren

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them. ~ Corazon Aquino

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~ Alan Coren

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. ~ Corazon Aquino

She comes with horns not the moon
And tail not the comet ~ Cesar Ruiz Aquino

The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even today a visit to almost any main street in the Western world or to a village or town in the developing world will show Catholic charities and outreach organizations operating in what are often the most challenging of conditions. ~ Michael Coren

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line? ~ Benigno Aquino III

Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic ... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral. ~ Alan Coren

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized. ~ Benigno Aquino III

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn. ~ Victoria Coren Mitchell

I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion. ~ Anna M. Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. ~ Corazon Aquino

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. ~ Alan Coren

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it. ~ Alan Coren

In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker. ~ Alan Coren

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. ~ Benigno Aquino III

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy. ~ Corazon Aquino