Deshani Mudannayake Quotes & Sayings

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression. — Shulamith Firestone

She gives me storm, and I give her peace. — L.J. Shen

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. — Frank Abagnale

Hmmm. See, in this world, Xirena, the Simi does what she wants and akri, he say, 'Okay, Simi, whatever you want, Simi.' Unless it involves eating people; then he usually says no, but that's the only time. Other than that, he do what the Simi says. See how that works? (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can a person not be two things at once? — Jodi Picoult

The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry. — Troy Clark

It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well. — Joe Sacco

The idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil ... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence. — Carl Sagan

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. — Bernhard Langer

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. — Hillary Clinton

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. — Samuel Johnson

After all, you can run from places, and you can run from other people, but you can run as long and as hard as you want, and you'll never truly be able to run from yourself. — Leonidaslion

The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept the fact as you accept it in the cinema that a film to be a success must have a happy ending. — W. Somerset Maugham

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied. — Giordano Bruno