Manouri Godahewa Quotes

#1. We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Barack Obama

#2. And proceeding to follow the example of the devil in quoting Scripture for his own ends I added: She looketh to the ways of her household ... .

Agatha Christie

#3. Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness attached to ribbons of joy. You will find love wrapped in sparkling gems.

Joan Clayton

#4. I did shoplift but I didn't get in trouble for it. I shoplifted a lot when I was little. Candy. I would steal candy.

Amy Sedaris

#5. The last of our enemies is laid low.

Clement Attlee

#6. But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#7. The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

John D'Agata

#8. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

Pink

#10. I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Jaime Winstone

#11. Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. Don't you think it's a small mystery that birds can twitter so loudly that they can hear each other's song from several miles away? Those tiny bundles are like living flutes, playing non-stop on themselves.

Jostein Gaarder

#13. An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Wallace D. Wattles