Weerasekara Sinhala Quotes

#1. Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Gertrude Stein

#2. The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sophocles

#5. In politics, there are no friends.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Henry James

#7. My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

George A. Romero

#8. Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Sophie Swetchine

#9. What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Constantin Stanislavski

#10. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#11. On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

Phyllis Diller

#12. [Jesus] is the event of the unity of life and death for the sake of life. Thus he is the event of a still greater selflessness in the midst of such great selfrelatedness. That is how he is God.

Eberhard Jungel

#13. In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Woodrow Wilson

#14. I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

Mac Davis