Jose Rizal Quotes

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

Jose Rizal

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• You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Impact

• In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • Friend
  • Bible

• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Together
  • Hope

• When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

  

  David Harvey
  • Money
  • Value

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• My country has no history, only a past.

  

  Alden Nowlan
  • Country
  • History
  • Past

• A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Person

• Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Children
  • Looks

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Cracks
  • Decay

• We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Age
  • Universe
  • Objects

• All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Hurt
  • Feelings
  • Conflict

• This is one of those games you want when you're going out on the road. That's why in the third quarter, I was proud of the guys. ... I brought the guys together and reminded them of how we've let teams get back in games in the third quarter. I just said let's finish this one.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Why
  • Together
  • Proud

• There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • People
  • Up
  • Obstacle

• You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Bird
  • Crush
  • Vampire

• A very important thing about DJing that’s missed nowadays is the trendsetting and the taste-making.

  

  Laidback Luke
  • Important
  • Taste
  • Important Things

• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire
  • Quality
  • Personality

• The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Independent
  • Successful
  • Nabbed

• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Up
  • May
  • Mother

• The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Useless
  • United Nations
  • Harmful

• Virtue lies in the middle ground.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Lying
  • Virtue
  • Middle