1521 Quotes

#1. Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.

Nick Joaquin

#2. Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

#3. The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

Friedrich Engels

#4. I want to play on the PGA Tour.

Michelle Wie

#5. Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

Hugo Sanchez

#6. [Col. 4:5, 6] Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Anonymous

#7. I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death.

Steve Maraboli

#8. A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.

Alexis Hall

#9. The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

#10. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

Hilary Mantel

#11. I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#12. I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

Herbie Hancock

#13. Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.

Hilary Mantel

#15. I went to college. Got a master's degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys."
She gave her grandmother a wry look. "You know, the usual girly stuff.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#16. If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Helen Mirren

#18. The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#19. He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

Gabrielle Zevin

#20. Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

Sheherazade Goldsmith