Nilangani Disasekara Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated. — Kenny Smith

Finally getting that sex change? I'm proud of you, brother. I mean, sister. — Lili Wilkinson

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! — Grant Allen

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first. — N.D. Wilson

Nothing's impossible, Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls. — Erin Morgenstern

But their overall effect was to overemphasize immediate personal conversion to Christ instead of a studied period of reflection and conviction; emotional, simple, popular preaching instead of intellectually careful and doctrinally precise sermons; and personal feelings and relationship to Christ instead of a deep grasp of the nature of Christian teaching and ideas. — J.P. Moreland

In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it. — Leo Tolstoy

But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You. — Cinda Williams Chima

Persons with Disability (PWD), Ex-Serviceman (XSM), Kashmiri Migrant (KM). Please refer to the Norms for the same. There are 394 vacancies for the above position (200 Electronics, 120 Mechanical, 57 Computer Science, — Anonymous

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way. — Mitch Albom

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. — Henry Rollins

Not one of our political spokespeople - the same is true of the Arabs since Abdel Nasser's time - ever speaks with self-respect and dignity of what we are, what we want, what we have done, and where we want to go. In the 1956 Suez War, the French colonial war against Algeria, the Israeli wars of occupation and dispossession, and the campaign against Iraq, a war whose stated purpose was to topple a specific regime but whose real goal was the devastation of the most powerful Arab country. And just as the French, British, Israeli, and American campaign against Gamal Abdel Nasser was designed to bring down a force that openly stated as its ambition the unification of the Arabs into a very powerful independent political force. — Edward W. Said