Carlos P Romulo Quotes

#1. I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Carlos P. Romulo

#2. I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance - for myself and my children and my children's children - forever.

Carlos P. Romulo

#3. Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

Carlos P. Romulo

#4. How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

Pete Hautman

#5. Tiki ran hard, ignoring the startled looks of strangers. It felt good to run, to run away from her sadness and fear.

Kiki Hamilton

#6. A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Liu Zongyuan

#7. I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task -- the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future.

Carlos P. Romulo

#8. Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

Carlos P. Romulo

#9. If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone ...

Tarryn Fisher

#10. I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

Mario Balotelli

#11. School is the cheapest police.

Horace Mann

#12. For my grandchildren . . . and all children - this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child shall lie down in terror or waken to hunger, but shall know himself as a being of unique value in a safer and kindlier world.

Carlos P. Romulo

#13. I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!

Carlos P. Romulo

#14. I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

Wayne Rogers

#15. But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. When God throws something your way, catch it!

Chriscinthia Blount

#17. Worst high five ever.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

Carlos P. Romulo

#19. Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.

Carlos P. Romulo

#20. All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

Carlos P. Romulo

#21. The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

Dale Carnegie

#22. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

Carlos P. Romulo

#23. Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Carlos P. Romulo

#24. A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Marion Zimmer Bradley