Cinnamon Gardens Quotes

#1. The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#2. Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#3. According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#4. The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

John Rawls

#5. Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#6. Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

William Bernbach

#7. Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

Laurance Rockefeller

#8. Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

#9. Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#10. Our innocent kids undergo much trouble. Not only do the children of high caste families look down upon our children calling them low caste brats, but even some teachers ridicule them. They beat our children for no reason.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#11. He was bald-headed except for a little fringe of rust-colored hair and his face was nearly the same color as the unpaved roads and washed like them with ruts and gullys.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#13. Reality is what resists.

Bruno Latour

#14. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Robert Bellarmine

#15. Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

George Grossmith

#16. In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#17. I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.

Manolo Blahnik

#18. That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.

Ally Carter

#19. Happiness is as Sunshine in the Sky.

Jan Jansen

#20. Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Elie Wiesel

#21. If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#22. Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#23. Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.

C.B. Smith