Ratnapala Quotes & Sayings

Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I would cross the line and there was no more thinking about what was going to be because it was. It happened that fast. — Adam Berlin Belmondo Style

I'm an accidental writer. — William P. Young

I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way. — Annie E. Clark

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all. — Natalia Ginzburg

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. — Oliver Reed

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are. — Frederick Lenz

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin

If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why. — Ron Kaufman

European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations. — Alan Furst

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision. — Kobe Bryant

The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand. — Thomas Hardy

We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option. — Jay Inslee

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it. — Ernest Holmes