Olongapo City Quotes

#1. NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

Nils Parker

#2. He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#3. A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

Chanakya

#4. It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

Lykke Li

#5. There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Lucy Powell

#6. Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

#7. Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#8. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.

Ta-Nehisi Coates