Jayalath Manorathna Quotes & Sayings

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat. — Benjamin Franklin

This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three. — Kate Morton

now. The freedom he had now was intoxicating, even though he had had but a taste, a glance at what it was really like, the entire sensation of it all made him light headed. He was something he had never thought he'd be. Freedom was a fairy — Chandler Duke

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness. — Zoe Akins

One of the great weaknesses of journalists is they interview people and they think that's important. They think that they are going to show them their true hand. But more to the point, they're trapped. — George Friedman

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In the summers we swam in the river and caught minnows with jam pots; on Sunday evenings my father fished in it, bringing home each time a bag of trout. In winter salmon came up to this quiet backwater to spawn and, of course, there was a certain amount of poaching, to which my father objected strongly. Once, when a generous neighbour gave us a present of a poached salmon, he lined us all up around the kitchen table and proceeded to open up the fish. As the eggs poured out he explained about the huge loss of fish life due to the poaching of this one salmon. In my father's world nature possessed a balance and man had no right to upset that balance to satisfy his own greed; killing this fish was going against the laws of nature. — Alice Taylor

Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up. — John C. Maxwell

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide

Beauty in the world is not always in the beautiful. — Christopher Hawke

Uncertainty is killing this economy. — Herman Cain

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me. — Jack Gleeson

Bless me, yes. There he is. He was very much attached to me, was Dick. Poor Dick! Dear, dear! — Charles Dickens

I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. — C.S. Lewis