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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

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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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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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
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• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

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

  

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

  

  Jeremy Taylor
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

  

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• Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

  

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• Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

  

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

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  • Good
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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Meditation
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• 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