Istak Quotes

#1. I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family
this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#2. It is what one really owns in the end, a name.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#3. Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#4. None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#5. But all men die
as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#6. In death, all men are brothers.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#7. All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#8. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#9. And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#10. Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#11. Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

Gregory Maguire

#12. Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

#13. Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who's really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place? - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#14. Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many?

Deniece Schofield

#15. Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

Thomas Merton

#16. ......Remember what my dad said when he walked me down the aisle: NO RETURNS.

Dana Marie Bell

#17. As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Charlie Pierce

#18. I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Vivian Stanshall

#19. A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Rumer Godden

#20. I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous

I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant.

Gary Val Tenuta

#21. You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Waite Hoyt

#22. In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

George W. Bush

#23. The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.

Bill Rodgers