Ishanka Abeysekara Quotes & Sayings

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play. — Moliere

What matters is that I have found a sort of peace in a primative God outside of theories and abstractions. — Mildred Jordan

When experiencing a work of art, a curious exchange takes place; the work projects its aura, and we project our own emotions and precepts on the work. The melancholy in Michelangelo's architecture is fundamentally the viewer's sense of his/her own melancholy enticed by the authority of the work. Enigmatically, we encounter ourselves in the work. — Juhani Pallasmaa

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. — Dean Rusk

He made you believe you'd have lovely things and live kinkily ever after, didn't he? — Kitty Thomas

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore