Kelaniya Quotes & Sayings

Science is a hammer for change. — J.J. Brown

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world. — Michael Franti

The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story. — Harold Ramis

The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best. — Sunday Adelaja

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million. — Thomas Carper

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. — William Godwin

Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual. — C.S. Lewis

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge. — Douglas Brinkley

No man is an island, No man stands alone; Each man's joy is joy to me, Each man's grief is my own. We need one another, So I will defend Each man as my brother, Each man as my friend. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

For Werner, doubts turn up regularly. Racial purity, political purity - Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure. But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color. The entropy of a closed system never decreases. — Anthony Doerr

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus