Laxton Towing Quotes & Sayings

True, the US Government does not have moral authority to ask for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that occurred in final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka. This is so not just because of what they have done in Sri Lanka, but what they do all around the world. Certainly, the US enhanced their assistance in many ways during last decades to fight against the Tamil Tiger rebels. But does the Government of Sri Lanka have moral authority to deny an international investigation? The answer is no. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

My mind is not like a neat and tidy garden; it is a vast and untidy wilderness, full of irrelevancies, but with lots of places to wander and get lost. — Roopa Farooki

Friends enhance our ability to think and act. — Aristotle.

The rebel in him flared to life like an old, familiar friend. — J.M. Stewart

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big. — Jenna Bush

A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the notion that liquidity of tradable common stock is a great contributor to capitalism is mostly twaddle. The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, so it has as many problems as virtues. — Charlie Munger

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad. — Howard Gossage

No, but if you will forgive me, let me say this: all children are creatures of joy, and all people are capable of love. You feel you lost everything, but there was a time before your joy when your children did not exist and your wife was unknown to you. Could it not be that there is a woman somewhere who will fill your life with love, and bear you children to bring you joy? — David Gemmell

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family. — Emma Bonino

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting. — Joyce Carol Oates

If one let's oneself be tamed, one runs the risk of weeping. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world. — Nelson Mandela

We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds. — Charles Darwin

However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night! — Mehmet Murat Ildan