Gadaladeniya Quotes & Sayings

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I read about a John Shelby of Thackham, England, who in 1672 was thrown from his horse into a thicket where he found an iron pot containing more than five hundred gold coins. According to the treasure trove laws of England, all hidden or lost property belonged to the Crown. However, Shelby refused to give the gold to the king's officers, and he was arrested, tried for treason, and beheaded. This was probably a favorite story of the IRS. — Nelson DeMille

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty ... — Arthur Davison Ficke

Educators in China are increasingly concerned that their system isn't cultivating critical and independent minds. — William Deresiewicz

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles

I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up. — Yoko Ogawa

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate. — Henny Youngman

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net. — Michel De Montaigne

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. — David O. Russell