A.t. Ariyaratne Quotes & Sayings

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have. — John Roberts

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — A.S. Byatt

I pulled him tighter as I lay back down. I had no idea where we went from here. No fucking clue what happened tomorrow. But for tonight, Adam was in my arms. And everything was okay. — Spencer Spears

the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness. — Charles Bukowski

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors. — Sophie Thompson

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die. — Frederick Lenz

See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it. — Karen Marie Moning

If you think you know everything; you know nothing. If you think you know nothing; you know something. — Jayce O'Neal

The meaning of these lines is anything but passive for it suggests that evil can be made absurd through excess; it suggests rendering evil absurd through dwarfing its demands with the volume of your compliance, which devalues the harm. This sort of thing puts a victim into a very active position, into the position of a mental aggressor. The victory that is possible here is not a moral but an existential one. — Joseph Brodsky