Jayantha Rathnayake Quotes

#1. I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Holly Black

#2. Your father is a piece of work," her mother said. "Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces." Pick up, sweep aside - same difference in her mom's world. Eleanor didn't argue.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Anne Hathaway

#4. I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

Abdullah Ocalan

#5. According to Darwin's theory, it's not the strongest who survive, but those who are the best adapted to their environment. Average people are the ones who survive and carry on the human race.

Svetlana Alexievich

#6. Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

Joy Bryant

#7. From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. The whole art of merchandising," he said, "consists of appealing to the imagination.

Lindy Woodhead

#9. May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.

Joseph Fink

#10. To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#11. Am I nostalgic for film? ... I mean, it's had a good run, hasn't it? You know, I'm not nostalgic for a technology. I'm nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren't being made now.

Roger Deakins

#12. Governments come and go. Life is the only movement that keeps going,' he

Antoine Laurain