Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: June 15, 1945 - September 29, 2016

Topics

ChangeGreatPeopleSocietyLookUp

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Michael Connelly

DayEvery DayWriteJustParagraph

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

John Pomfret

BeenShotOccasionsNumerous

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould

LifeTimeGenerationMy OwnChanges

If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

Tove Lo

TearsSongSadnessPictureYouDark

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

Tony Fadell

HomeConnectediPhoneStartedMost

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Mary McAleese

PeopleSocietyBelieveMeasureSound

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

HopeForwardBackTableGoSaid

I sort of go with the flow of what's happening on the set.

Jason Robards

GoFlowSetHappeningSort

The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.

DMX

ChangeTodayTruthBookYouNow

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

FreedomPowerLightDemocracyYou

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Penelope Lively

ChoicesMakeConstantlyHappenstance

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

Pete Rose

AloneTimeMeTreatLongYou

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