Miriam Santiago Quotes

#1. I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Haruki Murakami

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

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#6. 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

#7. Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. 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

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

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#10. 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

#11. I eat death threats for breakfast!

Miriam Defensor Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#13. 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

#14. How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Carter Burwell

#15. Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#16. But self-will is blind.

Ellen G. White

#17. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

Yasser Arafat

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

Miriam Defensor Santiago