Imelda Marcos Quotes

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

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• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Experience
  • Compassion

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Everything

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hair
  • Thought
  • Red

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• Love is an interesting thing.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Love Is

• I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Logic

• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Like
  • Road
  • First

• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Words
  • Sense
  • Misunderstood

• Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Bad
  • Said
  • Might

• I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak. I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak. I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.

  

  Dan Wells
  • Real
  • Tears
  • Emotion

• Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • Long
  • Snake

• It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Weakness
  • Distrust

• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Proud
  • Texas
  • Ballet

• I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

  

  Imelda Marcos