Patama Miriam Santiago Quotes

Life is not a race among the vain. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Await occasions and never hurry. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.' ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I eat death threats for breakfast! ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I guess it's the expectation that something will happen - something bright and shimmering, that has touched you life before, and will descend on you again, when you turn a corner. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Just because your head knows something it does not mean that your heart agrees. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

Dream make us reach the sky although we have no wings ~ Rifku Santiago

In my approaching old age, I am now supposed to share with you what life has taught me, and in the end to encapsulate for you what is the meaning of life. From where I am now, I find that these conundrums are easily answered. First, life teaches us that, whether we perceive it as predestined or as random, it is beyond any person's control. Second, there is no template for the meaning of life. Instead, the meaning of life is what you choose to make it mean. In making your choice, when you reach my age, your journey becomes an affirmation of the warning that life is a consequence of our moral choices. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

The only person you have to impress is yourself ~ Miriam Norwitz

Giving up is only an option when you are dead! ~ S.B. Santiago

The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

No type of therapy compares to accomplishing heavy and intimidating goals. ~ Miriam Khalladi

You put the fist in pacifist? ~ Miriam Toews

We never really wanted to play in California. ~ Santiago Durango

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

You still have to eat. ~ Miriam Toews

We are bound together for eternity, our lives entwined forever, as ordained by the gods. ~ Miriam Minger

There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you. ~ Miriam Toews

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown? ~ Esmeralda Santiago

Let whoever opens a door make certain there are no enemies hiding behind it. ~ Miriam Minger

When you got no wheels you're no place in L. A. ~ Danny Santiago

This is Miss Suzy's house", said the captain, drawing his sword. "Will you go peaceably, or must we fight? ~ Miriam Young

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking. ~ Miriam Toews

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book ~ Miriam Toews

The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness. ~ Miriam Toews

I am always searching for more light and space. ~ Santiago Calatrava

The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Family is everything....Loyalty is priceless ~ Danielle Santiago

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. ~ Miriam Toews

A teaspoonful of semen contains the same amount of protein as the white of one egg. However, the consumption of semen can be much more fun. ~ Miriam Stoppard

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation. ~ Santiago Durango

Not everything is a love story. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

Make this day a tree
leaning over the river eternity
and fuss about in its branches. ~ Jimmy Santiago Baca

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. ~ Miriam Toews

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me,
bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame. ~ Miriam Joy

...and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play. ~ Santiago Durango

I will probably die singing. ~ Miriam Makeba

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything. ~ Santiago Durango

How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child? ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another. ~ Miriam Toews

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ... ~ Miriam Toews

Jewish tradition holds that, given a choice between life and death, one should always choose life. ~ Miriam M. Brysk

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen. ~ Miriam Colon

Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home. ~ Miriam Toews

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams. ~ Miriam Toews

Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful? ~ Miriam Toews

And there was no money in Chicago for a band. ~ Santiago Durango

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx. ~ Ray Santiago

Not knowing is another form of torture. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago

I used to think all drunks were idiots, but I don't anymore; I've changed my mind about idiots. ~ Santiago Leganes Gomez

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive? ~ Miriam Toews

The sundisk, covered, shines not for people to see,
One cannot live when clouds conceal. ~ Miriam Lichtheim

If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby. ~ Miriam Schapiro

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world. ~ Miriam A. Walker

I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds. ~ Miriam Toews

There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

I look at the past and I see myself. ~ Miriam Makeba

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. ~ Santiago Durango

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. ~ Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ~ Joey Santiago

... the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty. ~ Miriam Toews

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one. ~ Joey Santiago

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts. ~ Santiago Cabrera

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

You have constellations
growing under your skin.
starlight in the blood spilled
when they stole your feathers ~ Miriam Joy

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.
Because I would start to love them, he said. ~ Miriam Toews

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself. ~ Miriam Toews

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. ~ Santiago Cabrera

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window. ~ Miriam Toews

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. ~ Miriam Toews

They were quarrelsome fellows and liked fighting so much, they even fought among themselves. ~ Miriam Young

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine. ~ Miriam Toews

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. ~ Miriam Toews

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. ~ Miriam Toews

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. ~ Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave. ~ Miriam Toews

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. ~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I can hardly understand the Australian accent. ~ Joey Santiago

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. ~ Santiago Durango

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart. ~ Miriam Makeba

The town office building has a giant filing cabinet full of death certificates that say choked to death on his own anger or suffocated from unexpressed feelings of unhappiness. ~ Miriam Toews

He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions. ~ Miriam Toews

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. ~ Miriam Schapiro

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has. ~ Joey Santiago

And what have you been up to? she asked.
Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser. ~ Miriam Toews

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever. ~ Miriam

And the art was in every corner and wall ... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember ... ~ Santiago Martinez Delgado

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude. ~ Santiago Cabrera