Najith Meewanage Quotes & Sayings

In their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part. — Angela Carter

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself. — William Shakespeare

I spent a lot of time between bars like this. — Tammy Duckworth

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians. — Franz Grillparzer

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana

Though our survival system doesn't always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely. — Kelly McGonigal

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. — Taraji P. Henson

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white. — Rachel Sklar

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. — Douglass North

I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family aren't enough. — Rebecca Salas

She tipped her head back and started laughing, and I started picturing people twerking - everyone in the limo. Quiet Luxen Dude. Rolland. Sadi. All of them bent over, butts in the air, looking like damn fools. — Jennifer L. Armentrout