Quotes by Filipino Authors - Page 2

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...
Miguel Syjuco
A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.
Geraldine Solon
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
Miguel Syjuco
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
José Rizal
The landscape of human emotion is ominously changing. The visceral sensation of loneliness and solitude is no longer as palpable and intellectually profound as it was a couple of decades ago because technology has already relieved us, as much as possible, from the burden of any emotional and existential isolation. The intense feeling of being nostalgic or being alone, for instance, is receding from the human emotion because we can now communicate with live video and send messages through any social media to a distant friend or loved one. Consequently, the exponential progress of technology is altering the phenomenological experience of human sensation, robbing us of our ability to get in touch with our humanity and reflect upon the triumphs and madness of our techno-society. Ironically, in our obstinate desire to humanize robots and Artificial Intelligence, our individual existence is, in turn, being digitized and robotized by our own technological inventions. Horribilis! (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Alienation of Solitude and Sorrow)
Danny Castillones Sillada
Nothing may stay the same but I guess one good thing that should remain still is the heart that always remembers to: stay strong and stay kind; stay lovely and stay nice; stay good and stay humble; stay true and stay honest. Just stay being the best of your heart could. But when that heart feels like giving up, give it a rest, pause for a while but never ever give up.
Diana Rose Morcilla
Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.
Joem S. Aguilar
Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the Red Sea? For someone like God, it would be easy to command the skies, the waters, the rocks. But to change a man’s heart, for a man to choose to come here and acknowledge his helplessness, now, that is the province of miracles.
V.J. Campilan
Don't hide yourself. Stand up, keep your head high and show them what you got!
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Joey Lawsin
We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
There is always a shade of pink for every color because Pink matches everything
Janna Cachola
Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
Melissa de la Cruz
You said: "Wait for the moon with me."I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.
Danabelle Gutierrez
As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa de la Cruz
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
Geraldine Solon
This is the best time to be an author.
Geraldine Solon
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
Geraldine Solon
You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.
Samantha Sotto
Failed expectations ruin marriages and kills love in the process. You and your partner deserve to know what you’re both getting into… and knowing now is better than later. .
Eeva Lancaster
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago
Miguel Syjuco
The private things of lifewhat you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are latched, your eyes are held captive, ‘priority’ beckons, and ‘the’ perverse emerges…..Tantamount to accountability is transparency which tends toward freedom!…. what you do in private is who you really are!
roy valenzuela
To Vic and other kids his age, the past didn't exist except as a quick, oversimplified Wikipedia snippets, that ultimately didn't matter because they weren't now. Dolores wonders if that is all she really is, a little piece of now, relentlessly pushed forward by time, trying desperately to look back over her shoulder to see what the past could possibly tell her, but caught in a rush that refused to stand still long enough for her to hear what it had to say.
David Hontiveros
I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I love" is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.
Nick Joaquín
There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.
Rin Chupeco
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
José Rizal
When your in pain you slowly killing your self but when your happy you are repairing the pain that slowly killing you
Dondy Subingsubing
When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.
Diana Rose Morcilla
Loving for the second time isn’t sweet; it’s bitter, and hurt more than the first.
Jessica E. Larsen
~ "Harmony, and not peace, is the key element that can bring all nations of the world together. In science we cannot prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!
Joey Lawsin
Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.
Frederick Espiritu
Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.
Rod Espinosa
Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.
Rin Chupeco
Even through the smoke,you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing you’d save in a fire.
Danabelle Gutierrez
That was when I realized all love does is hurt people. It lulls you into a false sense of security, and then bam! You slam into a brick wall of pain. A shit ton of pain. Love destroys people to the point where they don’t even care who else they hurt in the process.
Kate Evangelista
As young one we learned life is a opportunity and when we grow older we learned something more precious death is a gift
Dondy Subingsubing
My angels are jellyfish,electric, nearly invisible,armed with poisoned harpoons.My archangels are yellow tang.They feed on sunlight.They speak through color.Anything in their paths turns blind.
Eric Gamalinda
This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
Melissa de la Cruz
I realize that not everyone could be granted the chance of getting a decent closure – most people just deal with the decisions they made then on their own.
Dawn Lanuza
Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.
Ramon Bautista
You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.
F. Sionil Jose'
That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.
Melissa de la Cruz
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
Kenneth de Guzman
Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.
Joey A. Concepcion
Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
Jessica E. Larsen
I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.
Diana Rose Morcilla
It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.
Fernando Lachica
Medicine is a bit like love," Aunt Gertrude began. "There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and injections and extractions, the flowers and love notes and dances-but the real work is always happening out of sight. In here," she added, tapping herself on the heart.
Melissa de la Cruz
Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?
Melissa de la Cruz
What Mrs. Schuyler is saying," General Schuyler added, "is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.
Melissa de la Cruz
He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.
Melissa de la Cruz
silly man. I know the man I am marrying is destined for great things, as the many remarkable things he has done thus far have brought himto such a high oint already. Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.
Melissa de la Cruz
Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.
Melissa de la Cruz
For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.
Melissa de la Cruz
I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-"and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.
Melissa de la Cruz
Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admire the birds."One day, Alex, when you tire of being a soldier, we will spend all of our days just like this, watching birds and taking in the sun, surrounded by children of our own. You'd like that, wouldn't you, my love?""Eliza, you and the Pastures have already taken a perfectly fine soldier and turned him into a lovesick pup. And at this moment, on this very day, there's nothing and nowhere I'd rather be.
Melissa de la Cruz
And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong romance she had yearned for all her life.
Melissa de la Cruz