Imelda Quotes

I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,’ Suki shrugged by way of explanation.

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

In spite of all the red flags and signs that Marc had more baggage than Imelda Marcos taking shoes on vacation, I continued to date him.

In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna, ever photogenic, as she damned well be, emanated glamour. Carl looked rich, thin, and young, he thought, and Imelda was as baffling in print as she was in person. Was she really a work of art? Or was she just a hodgepodge of bronze and cement thrown together by some confused soul working hard to appear tortured?

Georgie had never laid eyes on half of them, but that was nothing new. Tara collected friends like Imelda Marcos had collected shoes.

Dear Imelda, In accordance with your wishes, I did not imagine you smiling. I did not smile myself. But I am willing to take my chances. Your body is yours to give or not. Should you decide not, I will respect that, although I must warn you that I will work hard to reverse your decision. Let me say, though, that I find all the signs most encouraging. Shall we go forward then? Love, Augustine.

The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills.

if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.

I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending, particularly love that has never been fully realised. I might have hinted at that, but I doubt it. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things." short story "Sister Imelda

This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me.

What’s that? Witch got your tongue?” Imelda stared down at him,

At last Porch explodes. “I feel like I’m walking four dogs at the same time,” he says loudly. “One short-legged, one long-legged, one old and decrepit, and one just plain foolish!” He points at Orson. “You are not listening. Imelda, you are in love with your vibrato. Minna and Lucas, your minds are elsewhere. Up, up!” Porch waves his arms.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I'm a person that likes to say the reality of life, even if it sounds raw--but I, myself--rather say and know it.

I started entertaining second thoughts about my support and propaganda work for Marcos towards the end of the year 1973. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact point in time when I did. But it must have been right after December 30,1973, which was the day Marcos’ second and last term in office under the 1935 Constitution ended. At about that point in time, I began to realize that Marcos imposed martial law, not to save the country from a Communist rebellion and to reform society, but to hold on to the presidency for life — and as a dictator. I

You know how you end up disappointed when you realize that the people you love and care about, change in a way you never thought they would. It hurts to see and even think about the kind of person they have become. If you feel that way, then don't become someone you know that would hurt people that love and care about you very much.

I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending, particularly love that has never been fully realised. I might have hinted at that, but I doubt it. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things." Edna O'Brien, short story "Sister Imelda", in "Returning".

There is a kind of love so intense it will cause men to kill dragons, to risk their lives on the edge of precipices. To wage war. But there is a kind of love, even more intense, that will cause a man to do absolutely nothing. It will sit on his shoulders like twenty sacks of bricks, and render him utterly immobile. Days turned into weeks and then they turned into months, and Joseph could not work up the courage to speak to Imelda.

There doesn’t need to be romance involved for you to sit on his face, Imelda. God’s sake,

You get your turn But they don't tell you that's all it is a turn a moment Everything explodes you're nothing but feelings Your life begins at last You think it will all be like that Then the moment passes... The moment passes but you stay in the shape you were then In the life that's come out of the things that you did The remainder of that girl you used to be that is gone

And, while a leshy and a waldgeist were both known to carry clubs, a djinni didn’t bleed.  But if it wasn’t a djinni altogether, but a dragon… Holy Mother, but her head was beginning to hurt. Squinting through the wriggling tendrils of glass fogging the edges of her vision, Imelda glanced over her shoulder at the place where Angus Ross had claimed to see a flash of ‘blackness so deep it ate the light.’  Her spine was still tingling from hearing that bit of information.  The last documented case of a void-walk had been in over three centuries ago, by a wounded bastet. 

shall be conducted to the summit of the mountain called Calvary…There, fastened and crucified upon the Cross… Year of the creation of the world 5233, the 25th day of March.” 28, 29 Mary at Garabandal, Spain gives many clues for the date of March 25, 2016, as the day of the Warning. The feast of St. Imelda, considered a Eucharistic martyr, is on May 12, and must fall on a Thursday for the day of the Miracle sign. The Miracle sign has to be within a year of the Warning. The only years left at this time for the Miracle sign on a Thursday the 12th, are 2016, or 2022. The events must take place during the time of Pope Benedict, now Emeritus. In 2016, the Pope Emeritus Benedict will be 89 years. The date of March 25 in 2016 is on a Good Friday. March 25 is the original date of Jesus crucifixion and death according to Tertullian and Hippolytus and Augustine.

a Fate in the area and light them up like a flare so the Fate’ll take care of the problem.” Her gut sinking as she thought of Padre Vega, Imelda said, “What would that look like?” “I have no idea,

IN THE EARLY MORNING of December 30, 1965, a few hundred Filipinos milled around the suburban residence of President-elect Ferdinand E. Marcos. They came in all manner of transport, from distant and nearby provinces, attracted by publicity on the celebrated beauty of the First Lady-to-be, Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

Peggy was different Peggy was complicated Speaking to her was like a game of chess Frank had taught Imelda draughts and now he was doing chess with her and so she knew Maurice was draughts Black v white Man v woman A battle that was fast and only for the crack Peggy was chess A game that Imelda didn’t know why would anyone even want to play it

Courage, little comrade at arms," he whispered. "The battle lowers, the bugle of Christ calls 'Forward!' Shall we falter in the charge? We follow a leader crucified.

It came back even worse when Imelda was pregnant with Cass. Now he had something to lose. He couldn’t just climb out the window and run. He couldn’t take an overdose or put a plastic bag over his head, couldn’t simply let himself be annihilated. He would have to fight, he would have to try to protect them, even though he knew it was impossible to win. You couldn’t protect the people you loved – that was the lesson of history, and it struck him therefore that to love someone meant to be opened up to a radically heightened level of suffering. He said I love you to his wife and it felt like a curse, an invitation to Fate to swerve a fuel truck head-on into her, to send a stray spark shooting from the fireplace to her dressing gown. He saw her screaming, her poor terrified face beneath his, as she writhed in flames on the living-room carpet. And the child too! Though she hadn’t yet been born, she was there too. All night he listened to her scream in his head – he couldn’t sleep from it, he just lay there and sobbed, because he knew he couldn’t protect her, couldn’t protect her enough –

Imelda felt sick; a muddle of shifting emotions, each taking turns to rise and fall in both intensity and significance, manifest in a single physical symptom. She felt excited at the prospect of seeing him, angry with him, guilty for doubting him, stupid for trusting him, frightened of losing him, frightened for wanting him. So badly. She felt as though she was falling but had no idea where she might land

As for Imelda, her vanity and hunger for material things were insatiable. She lived in splendor while the poor masses were left living under bridges and scavenging the Smokey Mountain garbage dump for food and scrap to sell.

The U.S. government cannot just fold its arms on the Philippines with which it has had a long tradition of friendship and history of tutelage in democracy. In the light of the traditional American policy of fighting its defensive wars outside the American continent, the Philippines becomes America’s special concern because it is a vital link in the U.S. world-wide defense network designed to keep wars away from American shores.

Elaine, keeping her face very stiff, explained that as Imelda’s father was driving his daughter to the church, a bee had flown in the window of the car and got trapped in her veil. She started freaking out, Elaine said. But her dad thought she just didn’t want to marry Dickie. When at last he realized what was happening, he’d pulled over, and tried to get the veil off her. But it had got caught in the seat belt, and he couldn’t get it free. So he jumps out of the car, and he runs around to the passenger side, Elaine said. But just as he finally untangles it, he hears this scream. It stung her? Cass said. Right on the eye, Elaine said, with a certain amount of relish.

I am told that my grandmother, the Beautiful Wife, was in awe of Imelda Marcos, the provincial beauty queen whom historians later called the Iron Butterfly. My grandmother, a girl from the provinces who worked her way to Manila, saw in Imelda an ideal. “Her favorite book

You know, the strange thing about going back to the place of one's childhood is not that people change- that's quite natural- but that you expect them somehow to stay the same in the way they treat you. In other words, you expect them to still think of you, where you used to live and walk, the people you interacted with, your habits and your rituals, as if you were still with them. But the ghost you left behind is really the last thing people want to think about. A place may change little, yes, but it changes a great deal in terms of how it remembers you. And so you are surprised every time you realize the ways in which you've been forgotten.

At the starboard window seat of our row, Imelda said, “Oh! There goes the LOX arm.” Much as some people might wish that it meant they’d loaded the ship with smoked salmon, it was the liquid oxygen supply arm retracting.

Better a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like Heaven by Americans.

Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have something going for them.

An inadequate or traumatic caregiving relationship is deeply damaging, especially during those early years when the brain is forming chemically and structurally. That part of the brain that allows the baby to feel connected with another person can be lost or greatly impaired. Absent adequate nurturing by an emotionally competent caregiver, the baby faces an unpredictable tide of unregulated emotions. … If a baby’s experiences are pathological and steeped in chronic fear early in development, the very capacities that mitigate against violent behavior (including empathy, the capacity for self-regulation of strong emotions and the emotional modulation essential for complex problem-solving) can be lost. As these children grow into adolescence and adulthood, impulsive and aggressive behaviors are so often the outcomes. Moreover, genetic proclivities toward mental illness also are exacerbated. Communities inevitably absorb the consequences. We ignore the root of the problem at our peril.”19

It’s also important to realize that unresolved trauma will always catch up with us. “Merely forgetting early traumas and early neglect is no solution,” Alice Miller writes.23 Instead, we have to go back in time and deal with the true feelings we had as children. Only then can we free ourselves from overwhelming fear, shame, guilt, anger and frustration.

Studies on abandoned and severely mistreated Romanian children revealed striking lesions in certain areas of the brain and marked emotional and cognitive insufficiencies in later life,” Alice Miller writes. “According to very recent neurobiological findings, repeated traumatization leads to an increased release of stress hormones that attack the sensitive tissue of the brain and destroy existing neurons. Other studies of mistreated children have revealed that the areas of the brain responsible for the ‘management’ of emotions are 20 to 30 percent smaller than in normal persons.”12

Imelda Marcos was trying to line up a partnership in which we did everything, put the money up, ran the shops, took all the risk, while she was supposed to get kickbacks,” said Feeney. “When the word ‘corruption’ came up, we ran.” Paying commissions to travel agents was one thing—but getting ensnared with corrupt politicians was another.

Others may be able to help you pay the mite that you owe to creditors, but they cannot help you pay the penalty you owe to God for the unrighteous sins you have committed during your lifetime. Human effort is not the currency that can pay off your debt of sin. Imelda Marcos from the Philippines used to walk on her knees from the back of her Catholic church all the way to the front. She thought that her suffering would pay for her sins. When she meets Jesus, she will realize that she was deceived. Muslims believe there is a great weighing scale that weighs their good deeds against their bad deeds to determine where they will spend eternity. Again, that won’t be happening. So to avoid taking their chances with the weighing scale, they’re taught that if they die as a martyr for Allah, they can skip judgment and go directly to Paradise! Nope. Their ticket must be stamped in the blood of Jesus Christ, or they will not be entering Paradise for all of eternity. Jesus tells us in verse 59 of our chapter’s passage that the guilty cannot pay their sin debt. They can’t get that last penny. They don’t have it, and no one can lend it to them or give it to them. Anyone who stands before the Lord without having their sins washed away by His blood will have no ability to pay off their eternal debt of sin. Remember, there is a great penalty for not having your sin debt paid in full before you stand before the Judge. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:46

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