Lankans Quotes

#1. Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

Shashi Tharoor

#2. Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Romesh Gunesekera

#3. On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

Shyam Selvadurai

#4. My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#5. Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

Charles Kennedy

#6. It's every Williams for themself.

Venus Williams

#7. To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

John Stuart Mill

#8. I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

Kirk Douglas

#9. The revolution starts at the bottom.

Yvon Chouinard

#10. I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

Bill Watterson

#11. Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.

Paul Russell

#12. Cling to the good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#14. In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Mary Doria Russell

#15. I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.

Don DeLillo