Causeways And Canals Quotes

#1. But when will Filipinas ever be free from its leaders who are wealthy and crooked, in whom we have put so much trust?
-The Cripple

F. Sionil Jose

#2. Cookie!" The kid holds up a carrot with the feathery green still attached to the top.
"Seriously?"
The woman gives me a wide-eyed don't say anything look and walks away fast.

Pam Bachorz

#3. Common sense is as rare as genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

Brandon Routh

#5. And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life.

Veronica Rossi

#6. No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

Shel Silverstein

#7. When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Crystal

#8. You need a seed-key to open doors of your fruit results.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#9. Don't you - you don't want your own space?"
"No," he said baldly. "Unless you do. I need you protecting me from our enemies with your water-wolves.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. he gained a real pleasure in befriending a man whom he privately had cause to despise, for he liked very much the feeling that his regard for others was a private font, a well, that he could muddy, or drink from, at his own discreet pleasure, and on his own time.

Eleanor Catton

#11. It is either an exciting or scary time to be a leader.

Miles Anthony Smith

#12. I rise from the moist crevice of thought,
I beat on the shores of her holy body,
I fall from the sky in silver sheets of sadness.
Rise onto me my precious sun.

A.P. Sweet

#13. Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

Son House

#14. If you can get people who don't know about you to know about you (marketing), and you can convert them into customers (sales), and once they're customers, you can lead them from point A to point B, you can accomplish anything on the planet

Michael Ellsberg

#15. You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.

Nancy Johnson