Abeywardena Quotes & Sayings

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift. — George Vaillant

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. — Frederick Lenz

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing
with the air. — Tom Waits

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. — Michael Shermer

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary. — Sylvia Beach

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised. — Justin Timberlake

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings. — Evan Rachel Wood

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that. — Joey Badass

Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to. One must admire Nature.. — Jean Rhys

Aquinas was a superior servant; he betrayed little reaction to the news that there was a corpse in the chapel. He merely blinked once, slowly, and then crossed himself. — Deanna Raybourn

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe