Sujeewa Nelson Quotes & Sayings

In this life, you cannot understand what you have not lived. — Cyrille Mendes

I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I'm even having a heart attack, but it doesn't seem worth mentioning. — Suzanne Collins

Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak. — Jeff Chang

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves. — Marco Rubio

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom — Lord Acton

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle. — Salman Rushdie

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out. — E. M. Forster

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature. — Geraldine Brooks

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death. — T.R. Neff

Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat. — Nalini Singh

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being. — Edward Schillebeeckx

... all that matters is how to rise, for you are half out of your mind. — Samuel Beckett

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well. — Pierre Trudeau