Anjala Seneviratne Quotes & Sayings

I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation or estrangement. — Wolfgang Tillmans

I am saved. I am redeemed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes. — Kathleen Edwards

With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny. — Jose Saramago

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me. — Jhumpa Lahiri

An interest in souls divorced from an interest in Scripture leaves us without a text that shapes these souls. In the same way, an interest in Scripture divorced from an interest in souls leaves us without any material for the text to work on. — Eugene H. Peterson

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew. — Billy Graham

When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches. — Jennifer Rardin

The time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to move into full swing, with its exalted claims about the emperor. Christians were calling Jesus God directly on the heels of the Romans calling the emperor God. — Bart D. Ehrman

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. — Stephen King

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. — William Dean Howells