Amarasinghe Law Quotes & Sayings

We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh. — Lauren Oliver

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader. — David A. Noebel

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design. — Linda Dillow

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it. — Sarah Addison Allen

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey

You can live your life in "should" and never change anything. What's done is done. We buried our dead. I went home. Manuel went to Shadowed Hills to hate me in peace. — Seanan McGuire

Gossip is conversation about people. — Gore Vidal

Vaclav has said goodnight to Lena every night since the night she went away. Out loud. In a whisper. [...] He filled the words with all his love and care and worry for Lena and launched them out to her, and like homing pigeons, he trusted them to find her. — Haley Tanner

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. — Daniel H. Wilson

I like you," he said.
He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.
He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that. — Jenny Downham

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl. — Suzi Quatro

In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell a joke to a boy at lunch. — Anthony Marra

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck. — Roald Amundsen

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. — Lewis Gordon Pugh