Constantino's Quotes

#1. Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#2. MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. ...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.

Kerry Alan Denney

#4. The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

Ricky Gervais

#5. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.

Milarepa

#7. All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Lawrence Lessig

#8. As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

Apolo Ohno

#9. To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

David Novak

#10. 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

#11. The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

Renato Constantino

#12. Life is real, and it's ugly, and it hurts. I've only ever loved three things in my life, and none of them worked out for me.

C.M. Stunich

#13. Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much.

Dorothy Parker

#14. My answer is bring 'em on.

George W. Bush

#15. I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they "want to do" and start asking them what they don't want to do.

Amy Poehler