Sanjaya Belatthaputta Quotes & Sayings

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. — Frances Conroy

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about. — Pete Rose

It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp borders, sharp corners, neat railings, and machine-polished textures that define the new Japanese landscape, because, consciously or unconsciously, most of us see such things as embodying the very essence of modernism. In short, foreigners very often fall in love with kirei even more than the Japanese do; for one thing, they can have no idea of the mysterious beauty of the old jungle, rice paddies, wood, and stone that was paved over. Smooth industrial finish everywhere, with detailed attention to each cement block and metal joint: it looks 'modern'; ergo, Japan is supremely modern. — Alex Kerr

How many of you would sacrifice yourself to not kill, but merely hurt your enemy? — Pierce Brown

Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of disclosures, each revealing different parts of a mysterious entity. Finally Steed-Asprey, who seemed to be Chairman, removed the last veil, and the truth stood before him in all its dazzling nakedness. He was being offered a post in what, for want of a better name, Steed-Asprey blushingly described as the Secret Service. — John Le Carre

I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom. — Shemar Moore

She thought I was ... soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. — Nick Hornby

One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven. — Nnedi Okorafor

Kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die. — Mary Louisa Molesworth

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. — Lester Bangs

To every bench, as a fixture, there was a chain with heavy anklets. These the hortator proceeded to lock upon the oarsmen, going from number to number, leaving no choice but to obey, and, in event of disaster, no possibility of escape. — Lew Wallace

I get what you're saying, but my hanging with the ladies is mostly for publicity when I'm on tour. I don't sleep with that many girls. Well, not all of them. Okay, I'm trying to behave myself. It's not easy being famous! — Michelle Sutton

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. — James E. Faust

1JO4.1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. — Anonymous

The month of December isn't magical because it sparkles. It's magical because it changes people's hearts ... at least momentarily. — Toni Sorenson