Top 27 Miriam Defensor Santiago Quotes
#1. I love you because I don't know how to not love you. Becuase I can't imagine my world without you, and I don't ever want to have to face that again. Because you are sweetness and light and life, and you see me as the man I could be not as the man I am.
Catherine Gayle
#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. Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#6. A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#7. 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. The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling
#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. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?
David Graeber
#14. Before too much longer I'll forget her minute imperfections. That's what you end up missing the most, those little faults. They burrow under your skin. Become endearing in retrospect.
Tracy Guzeman
#15. 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
#16. So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.
Kent Haruf
#17. In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#19. He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an "S" inside, "Because, Suzanne, you are my home.
Jennifer Clement
#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. Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.
Dermot Davis
#22. We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A.S. Byatt
#23. I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.
Shaquille O'Neal
#24. The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.
Steve Ballmer
#25. I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.
Chris Wooding
#26. Sex in a relationship is a partnership. One person can't do all the work.
Tiffany Reisz
#27. I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
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