Philena Primary Quotes

#1. Men are like turtles; they are classified and valued according to their shells. In

Jose Rizal

#2. To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

William Tyndale

#3. I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

#4. I don't understand why doctors don't advise everybody to lay on twenty extra pounds while they've got the chance. I might not advocate outright obesity, but there's a reason for fat - it's a resource.

Lionel Shriver

#5. There is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot pursuit of the goals and ideas you believe in so much they captivate and inspire others.

Charlotte Beers

#7. A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

Debasish Mridha

#9. This is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.

Scott Lynch

#10. Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

Henry Louis Gates

#11. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard