#ma

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#feel #hardly #humanity #i #i feel

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#basic human rights #comfort #concerns #country #dignity

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#always #citizens #did #dreams #ever

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#california #dear #even #friends #governor

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#america #betrayal #ever #failure #hopes

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#born #free #interesting #learn #limits

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#being #concepts #experience #exposed #love

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#courses #during #i #math #mcgill

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. ↗

— Early Wynn

#ballgame #i #like #likes #losing