Lilamani De Silva Quotes & Sayings

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. — Florence Nightingale

Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it? — Dada Bhagwan

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it. — Barton Gellman

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night. — William Goldman

I'm sure I have no idea what you are talking about PRINCESS." He tilted his head and half curtseyed when he said the last word.
"That! That is what I am talking about. Since we ran into the others you have been cold and more arrogant than usual." She kept her voice low so the others would not hear.
"Is that so? I would say I was averagely arrogant — B.C. Morin

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Faith had given up on the whole one-day-my-prince-will-come romantic bullshit — Amy Andrews

The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans. — Hannah Arendt

I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad. — Damir Dokic

Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have: — Hanya Yanagihara

A tsunami of heartbreak consumed the landscape of her heart, wiping out all she has known or assumed or believed to be real over the last eleven years. — Karen Kingsbury

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. — Peter F. Drucker

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is. — Anis Mojgani

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. — Shirley Abbott

Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed increase to compensating for the relative lack of parallelism in our computers, but ultimately the digital neocortex will be much faster than the biological variety and will only continue to increase in speed. — Ray Kurzweil