Madduma Bandara Quotes & Sayings

You own every piece of me, Cadence Taylor, and if you let me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving to you that you're the only thing left worth fighting for. — Melyssa Winchester

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war. — David Ben-Gurion

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough. — Anne Michaels

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation
they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves. — Lord Byron

Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical. — Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never. — Sarah Dessen

There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. — Nikola Tesla

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you. — Confucius

Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people. — Yasmin Mogahed

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise. — John Durham Peters

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business. — Frank Silva

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps. — Julie Christie

The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents. — Llewellyn Rockwell