Jose Rizal Quotes

No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Jose Rizal

• Fall
• Blow
• Storm
• Blame
• Refuge
• Cowardice

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• Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Physical
  • Hardships

• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Doing
  • Building

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Trying
  • Jerk
  • Snob

• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
  • Illness
  • Universal

• I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Myself

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit

  

  Hal David
  • Guy

• When we speak of mom winning custody or of dad getting visitation time, we speak of someone winning, someone losing. When we speak of mom or dad spending 'parent time' with a child, we speak of two parents, not a parent versus a visitor.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• "the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Kandinsky was connected with Die Brücke and the Blue Rider: they had a concept and created a reality. But I prefer Jean Fautrier French painter-artist; 1898 - 1965 with his suffering and self-absorption. And his purpose on bringing about changes was just as strong. As a result I see in Fautrier a stronger paradigm than in Kandinsky..

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Reality
  • Strong
  • Die

• I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.

  

  William Shatner

• Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Eye
  • Blind
  • Accept

• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Fall
  • Blow
  • Storm