Miriam Defensor Quotes

#1. That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Roger Zelazny

#2. I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#3. Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#4. A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#5. God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

Gary North

#6. I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Bob Marley

#7. A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#8. What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#9. They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, Kill all white babies.

Glenn Beck

#10. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#11. I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

Simon Schama

#12. When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#13. I eat death threats for breakfast!

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#14. I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#15. The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

Pat Condell

#16. Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Nick Wechsler

#17. In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#18. Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?"
"Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

Cassandra Clare

#19. Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

Willa Cather

#20. Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#21. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying

Santosh Kalwar

#22. I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

William P. Bundy

#23. Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

Shunryu Suzuki

#24. I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.

Bryn Greenwood

#25. I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

Miriam Defensor Santiago