Jose Rizal Quotes

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Jose Rizal

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
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• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
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  • Family
  • Hands

• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Black
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• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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  • Hands
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• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  

  Cao Cao
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Being
  • Defeat
  • Fears

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand 'Take these silver bars,' he said, 'I'm giving you command.' Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me. The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy. 'Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost, If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust.'

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Lost

• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Should
  • Rule

• We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Enemy
  • Islamic

• Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  

  John Buford
  • Time
  • Good
  • Enemy

• There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption. Ho Chi Minh never underestimated America. His avowed hero was George Washington and he remained in awe of the U.S., all his life. He remains the only enemy leader who ever defeated us at war, and then only because our hubris (not decadence) got the better of us.

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • America
  • War

• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Gay
  • Color

• Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Enemy
  • Achievement
  • Comfort

• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • May
  • Society
  • Stop

• I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Business
  • American
  • Small

• I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

  

  Hawa Abdi
  • Government
  • Helping
  • Bigs

• I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Enemy
  • Should
  • Hands