Damasus Peiris Quotes & Sayings

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws. — Raul Labrador

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person. — Gary A. Haugen

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country. — George Osborne

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes
and I see many of them in the audience here today
our sense of patriotism is particularly strong. — Barack Obama

People were evidently looking for something in the mountains that they believed they had lost a long time ago. He never worked out what exactly this was, but over the years he became more and more that the tourists were stumbling not so much after him but after some obscure, insatiable longing. — Robert Seethaler

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'. — Daniel Johns

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. — Magdalena De Pazzi

Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself. — Carey Mulligan

If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless. — Dodinsky

Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother's face a hundred times in a single afternoon. — Markus Zusak

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you. — Robert Genn