Hirap Buhay Quotes

#1. [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

#2. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

David Rudisha

#3. I can't prevent storms from coming, but I can decide not to invent my own.

Emily P. Freeman

#4. I think the world should be one community.

Neil Tennant

#5. Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

Pearl Bailey

#6. It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

Elizabeth Kostova

#7. I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.

Amy Tan

#8. I wish I could tell you the road from here to where you're going is straight and without obstacles. That is not the truth. The journey to greatness is just not that way.

Kami Guildner

#9. I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.

Elizabeth Scott

#10. I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.

Karen Joy Fowler