Top 53 Mendoza Quotes
#1. This is so my favorite time of day to make house calls," Mendoza announced from the backseat of Wyatt's SUV as they cruised the Soyopango gangland territory. "Nothing says sneak attack like waltzing in under the cover of the noon-fucking-sun.
Cindy Gerard
#2. Full belly, happy heart, was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he'd heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony.
Isabel Allende
#3. He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified.
Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior.
"It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.
Isabel Allende
#4. One of the most enduring lessons I learned in my youth: Activists do not save the masses. The masses save themselves. Activists, like politicians, are just there to take credit for it.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#5. To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#6. Unless you heard it yourself, take with a grain of salt what a person says another person said about you.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#9. Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#10. The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#11. Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#12. You are never a victim, unless you think you are
Elsa Mendoza
#13. The hell I care with your flavor of the month?' Sabi ko. Yeah, yun yung girlfiend niya which I consider his flavor of the month. Or should I say, flavor of the week? Ang bilis niya kasing magpalit ng babae, well I'm the only exception! Hahaha!" - Arkisha
Ruth Mendoza
#14. Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#16. You will always be
special to someone.
Unless you grow so old,
everyone you knew
went ahead
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#19. It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#20. I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#21. I've always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph - a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind!
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#22. It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#25. The mayor will be remembered because of his refusal to accept political favors and he kept his campaign promises.
Alicia Mendoza
#26. The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#27. Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me:
If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures,
life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#28. Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#29. There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#30. Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#31. They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#33. Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.
Tony Mendoza
#34. We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#36. Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#37. Ignore me. I don't want to talk about my nonexistent love life today.
Julie James
#38. David, for example, comes home from work and complains to Angela that his father isn't paying him enough, especially compared to his brother, Steve, who doesn't work very hard and frequently takes off from work to play golf.
Drew S. Mendoza
#39. I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Antonio De Mendoza
#40. I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#41. He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain without company, on a path without a crosier, in darkness without a guide.
Juan De Palafox Y Mendoza
#42. The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#43. Only two things in man's consciousness defy discussion: faith and one's marriage.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#46. It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#47. Kindness is fate's currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#48. There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#49. There is my truth. There is your truth. And there is their truth. The absolute truth is with God.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#50. I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#52. Writers, when they're good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#53. Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
