Thushani Jayawardana Quotes & Sayings

We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence. — Alice Schwarzer

This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry — Dermot McCabe

When does a wife know that her husband is cheating on her? When he starts complaining about the lack of water as he wants to have two showers a week." This was one of the many popular jokes. — Felix Abt

How could you lose me? I'm not going anywhere."
"I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me."
Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up. "I won't ever leave you," she says. "Even though you're always leaving me."
"But I never want to leave you. — Audrey Niffenegger

...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves. — Dan Riskin

The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy, and quietness, — Janice P. Nimura

The struggle I went through has value. — Clara Hughes

Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal). — Dutch Sheets

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it. — Jacques Audiard

Progress, the religion of those who have none. — Lord Acton

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way. — Patrick Rothfuss

Economic growth has liberated societies from the natural pressures that forced them into an immediate struggle for survival; but they have not yet been liberated from their liberator. The commodity's independence has spread to the entire economy it now dominates. This economy has transformed the world, but it has merely transformed it into a world dominated by the economy. — Guy Debord

There is no limit to the defenses we contrive against the inbreak of truth into our lives. — Brennan Manning