Palitha Jayasinghe Quotes

#1. To what a degree this loose mode of classing and denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit for the purposes of accurate thinking, is best known to whoever has most meditated on the present condition of those branches of knowledge.

John Stuart Mill

#2. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Zoe Saldana

#3. So I called back, "Ya, I have ten boxes and ... no I'm another guy. Ya and they all weigh exactly 22 pounds, and they all have a girth of ... three." "Three what?" "Three ... girth units.

Brian Regan

#4. Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

Ban Ki-moon

#5. You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

J.D. Salinger

#6. You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella.
First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

David Letterman

#7. Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Joe Cocker

#9. Age isn't important until you run out of it.

Malcolm Forbes

#10. Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [ ... ] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

H.L. Mencken

#11. 12And this shall be e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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