Jayalath Manoratne Quotes & Sayings

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth. — Warren Buffett

I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box Man, p. 38) — Kobo Abe

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn't even known I was in the pool — Charlaine Harris

This was Darian One Sterling.
A murderer. And my childhood friend. — Shannon Duffy

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better. — Molly Ivins

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. — Leon Trotsky

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions ... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. — Noreena Hertz

I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. — Krista Tippett

Energy, curiosity, and wonder are not products of age. They're byproducts of what we do. — Eric Greitens